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Author : American Park and Outdoor Art Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Landscape gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015027092207
Author : American Park and Outdoor Association,Park and Outdoor Art Association (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Art, Municipal
ISBN : UIUC:30112051914965
Author : Robert E. Grese
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801859476
Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. When Jensen died in 1951 at the age of 90, the New York Times called him "the dean of American landscape architecture." In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese evaluates Jensen's work against the background of landscape design traditions that included Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as earlier movements in Europe. Grese examines Jensen's part in the Chicago cultural renaissance that occurred just prior to World War I, a movement that brought social reform, a new understanding of ecology, organic trends in architecture, and great strides in American literature. Drawing on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects, Grese presents a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes. Jens Jensen worked with some of the leading architects of his day--Sullivan and Wright among them--so many of his projects involved the extravagant estates of wealthy entrepreneurs in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. But Jensen also worked on schools, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, institutional homes, and government buildings. Long before environmental activists took over the idea, he foresaw the need to preserve the dunes, forests, prairies, and wetlands native to the Middle West. He championed the network of forest preserves around Chicago, protection of the Indiana Dunes (now a national lakeshore), the state park system in Illinois, and numerous parks in Wisconsin. Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens offers a compelling look at Jensen's visionary work and remarkable career.
Author : American Park and Outdoor Art Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Landscape gardening
ISBN : CORNELL:31924019466295
Author : Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Jack Becker
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022536
An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Reynolds Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000762602Q
Author : Laura J. Lawson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520243439
"The social history of American cities would not be complete without a full account of the rise of community open spaces. Lawson does exactly this by providing a compelling and poetic account of the history and making of urban gardens. Combining solid scholarship with engaging images of the gardens and stories of their makers, this book sheds new light on the value of urban open space. More important, it explains why community gardens need to stand alongside city parks as permanent open spaces. Essential reading for community developers and landscape architects as well as anyone who ventures outside, enthusiasm and shovel in hand, to improve their local environment.—Mark Francis, author of Urban Open Space and Village Homes "The definitive history of the past hundred years of America's experience with community gardens. A labor of love by a garden activist, the book appears at a most appropriate time—today our city dwellers and suburbanites are retreating onto carpets of passive open space tended by homeowner associations and lawn care outfits. Lawson thoughtfully analyzes the weaknesses of community gardens when used as a response to social crises and, by contrast, investigates community gardens as an alternative to today's managed care of open space. Her history clearly presents a way of community living that we can elect if we choose her wisdom."—Sam Bass Warner, Jr, author of To Dwell Is to Garden "An important book about how the urban gardening movement is transforming our landscape and reconnecting us to the land."—Alice Waters, Owner, Chez Panisse
Author : Reynolds Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112071150749
Author : Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135602987
First Published in 1996. Part of a series that brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The physical development of cities and their infrastructure is considered in Volume 2, which focuses on city planning and its origins in the Rural Cemetery Movement, the City Beautiful Movement, and the role of business in advocating more rational and efficient urban places. Volume 2 also contains articles about essential aspects of the urban infra structure and the provision of basic services essential for urban survival—water, sewer, and transportation systems.
Author : F.B. Williams
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : History
ISBN : 9785878818087
Author : Evan Friss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226211077
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have played out in the media, on city streets, and in city halls. Very few people recognize, however, that these questions are more than a century old. The Cycling City is a sharp history of the bicycle’s rise and fall in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, American cities were home to more cyclists, more cycling infrastructure, more bicycle friendly legislation, and a richer cycling culture than anywhere else in the world. Evan Friss unearths the hidden history of the cycling city, demonstrating that diverse groups of cyclists managed to remap cities with new roads, paths, and laws, challenge social conventions, and even dream up a new urban ideal inspired by the bicycle. When cities were chaotic and filthy, bicycle advocates imagined an improved landscape in which pollution was negligible, transportation was silent and rapid, leisure spaces were democratic, and the divisions between city and country were blurred. Friss argues that when the utopian vision of a cycling city faded by the turn of the century, its death paved the way for today’s car-centric cities—and ended the prospect of a true American cycling city ever being built.
Author : Donald A. Krueckeberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351309943
This book is an introduction to the history of the city planning profession in the United States, from its roots in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. The work examines important questions of American planning history. Why did city planning develop in the manner it did? What did it set out to achieve and how have those goals changed? Where did planning thrive and who were its leaders? What have been the most important ideas in planning and what is their relation to thought and social development?By answering these questions, this book provides a general understanding for further study of the extensive literature of planning and urban history.Donald A. Krueckeberg divides this work into three historical periods: an initial period of independent but gradually converging concepts of a planned city; a second period of national organization, experimentation, and development; and a third period of implementation of planning ideas in nearly all levels and areas of urban policymaking.Krueckeberg begins with revealing the origins of modern planning in the movements for sanitary reform, civic art and beautification, classical revival in civic design, and neighborhood settlements and housing reform. A second section covers the institutionalization of the profession; the rise of zoning and comprehensive planning; influential figures of the period; and the new communities program of the New Deal. The book contains case studies and focuses on the role of the planner and the effectiveness of the profession. Krueckeberg concludes with a bibliography of planning history in the United States.
Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 052131397X
Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts the author takes the reader to the saloons, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where American industrial workers spent their leisure hours, to explore the nature of working-class culture and class relations during this era.
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015073234125
Author : Smith College
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 025201300X
