Terence Young earned his Ph.D. in geography at UCLA and was a member of the Department of Geography and Anthropology and the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His areas of teaching and research expertise include historical geography, environmental geography, biogeography, and tourism & recreation, particularly of the United States. He has published on nature perception and meaning, recreational environments, tourist landscapes, theme parks, and nature parks and reserves. The Johns Hopkins University Press released his book, Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, in February 2004. It explores the links between concepts of nature, landscape design, and social order in the struggles over park making in San Francisco. Cornell University Press published his latest book, Heading Out: A History of American Camping, in June 2017. It explores how camping is linked to pilgrimage, modernization, and technology.
My Current Research & Consulting
Essentialism & American urban greenspace advocacy from the 1850s to today
The North Americanization of park & protected area administration around the world. In particular:
The U.S. Department of Interior's "African Student Program" that ran from 1961 into the 1970s.
The U.S. National Park Service's "Short Courses" on Administration of National Parks & Equivalent Reserves that ran from 1965 to 1992
"The Four Vagabonds" (John Burroughs, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and Henry Ford) & Camping in post-WWI America
In addition to my research, I consult on the history of firearms regulation in American parks and equivalent spaces.
