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Author : Sarah Allaback
Publisher : National Park Service Division of Publications
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D01965532Y
Describes 6 national park visitor centers built from 1956-1966 during the National Park Service's Mission 66 park development program. Includes a brief history of the Mission 66 program.
Author : Ethan Carr
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Landscape design
ISBN : 1558495878
In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal programs further reduced the ability of the federal government to keep pace with the wear and tear on park facilities. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled Mission 66 was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. The program covered more than one hundred visitor centers (a building type invented by Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, innumerable comfort stations and other public facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of employee residences. During this transformation, the park system also acquired new seashores, recreation areas, and historical parks, agency uniforms were modernized, and the arrowhead logo became a ubiquitous symbol. To a significant degree, the national park system and the National Park Service as we know them today are products of the Mission 66 era. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Hastening the advent of the modern environmental movement, it transformed the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineering club into a national advocacy organization. But Mission 66 was also the last systemwide, planned development campaign to accommodate increased numbers of automotive tourists. Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities the program built. Ethan Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435030431068
Author : Episcopal Church. Diocese of Central New York
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924093226094
Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754084888910
Author : United States. National Park Service. Rocky Mountain Regional Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)
ISBN : UOM:39015024815261
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433070790831
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6GLA
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Baptists
ISBN : NYPL:33433068271380
Author : American Tract Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Tract societies
ISBN : WISC:89077177251
Author : American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Baptists
ISBN : CHI:11370593
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B3636559
Author : Leslie M. Gilmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467119555
By 1955, the national parks were facing a crisis of dilapidation from heavy use and lack of funding. The answer was Mission 66. This visionary plan, implemented over the next decade, included installation of new facilities to accommodate the influx of visitors and enhance their experiences. The pilot development in Yellowstone, named Canyon Village, introduced a modern aesthetic to the parks and emphasized the concept of conservation. This man-made environment was purposefully sited away from the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, providing a natural buffer. Architect Lesley M. Gilmore presents the complexities of this historic, ambitious model for the movement that marked the continued evolution of the national parks into the destinations we flock to today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063914821
Author : Illinois. Military and Naval Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Illinois
ISBN : UIUC:30112121929183