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Author : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Park Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Parks
ISBN : UCBK:C070473596
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781421409269
These papers document the personal and professional life of the foremost landscape architect in American history. Frederick Law Olmsted relocated from New York to the Boston area in the early 1880s. With the help of his stepson and partner, John Charles Olmsted, his professional office grew to become the first of its kind: a modern landscape architecture practice with park, subdivision, campus, residential, and other landscape design projects throughout the country. During the period covered in this volume, Olmsted and his partners, apprentices, and staff designed the exceptional park system of Boston and Brookline—including the Back Bay Fens, Franklin Park, and the Muddy River Improvement. Olmsted also designed parks for New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, and Detroit and created his most significant campus plans for Stanford University and the Lawrenceville School. The grounds of the U.S. Capitol were completed with the addition of the grand marble terraces that he designed as the transition to his surrounding landscape. Many of Olmsted’s most important private commissions belong to these years. He began his work at Biltmore, the vast estate of George Washington Vanderbilt, and designed Rough Point at Newport, Rhode Island, and several other estates for members of the Vanderbilt family. Olmsted wrote more frequently on the subject of landscape design during these years than in any comparable period. He would never provide a definitive treatise or textbook on landscape architecture, but the articles presented in this volume contain some of his most mature and powerful statements on the practice of landscape architecture.
Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421435251
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015036740572
Reports for 1863-90 include accession lists for the year. Beginning with 1893, the apprendixes consist of the various bulletins issued by the Library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries)
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11333512
Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Libraries
ISBN : MINN:31951000841853B
From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555030817
Author : Amir Alexander
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226820729
The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape. Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all precisely measured and perfectly aligned, turn both urban and rural America into a checkerboard landscape that stretches from horizon to horizon. In evidence throughout the country, but especially the West, the pattern is a hallmark of American life. One might consider it an administrative convenience--an easy way to divide land and lay down streets--but it is not. The colossal grid carved into the North American continent, argues historian and writer Amir Alexander, is a plan redolent with philosophical and political meaning. In 1784 Thomas Jefferson presented Congress with an audacious scheme to reshape the territory of the young United States. All western lands, he proposed, would be inscribed with a single rectilinear grid, transforming the natural landscape into a mathematical one. Following Isaac Newton and John Locke, he viewed mathematical space as a blank slate on which anything is possible and where new Americans, acting freely, could find liberty. And if the real America, with its diverse landscapes and rich human history, did not match his vision, then it must be made to match it. From the halls of Congress to the open prairies, and from the fight against George III to the Trail of Tears, Liberty's Grid tells the story of the battle between grid makers and their opponents. When Congress endorsed Jefferson's plan, it set off a struggle over American space that has not subsided. Transcendentalists, urban reformers, and conservationists saw the grid not as a place of possibility but as an artificial imposition that crushed the human spirit. Today, the ideas Jefferson associated with the grid still echo through political rhetoric about the country's founding, and competing visions for the nation are visible from Manhattan avenues and Kansan pastures to Yosemite's cliffs and suburbia's cul-de-sacs. An engrossing read, Liberty's Grid offers a powerful look at the ideological conflict written on the landscape.
Author : Henry Cruse Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQSBQ
Author : Henry Cruse Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015033668461
Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Natural history
ISBN : MINN:31951D00001783S
Includes list of members.
Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Natural history museums
ISBN : WISC:89094396421
Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Natural history museums
ISBN : IND:30000114654530
Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015035562944
Includes list of members.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : United States
ISBN : CHI:74884950