A description of the citizen-led effort to get Americans out of their cars and into the landscape via greenways - linear open spaces that preserve and restore nature in cities, suburbs and rural areas. These can link parks and open spaces and provide corridors for wildlife migration.
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Mr. Little is an enthusiastic journalist with both an eye and an ear for local history and politics... During the greenway reconnaissance, [he] found the tenacity and ingenuity that we want to believe continue to define the American character. And he provides many practical ideas for people who would follow suit.
(New York Times Book Review )This hopeful book is an invitation to make dreams come true... Half of the book is case histories, portraits of existing greenways with engaging discussions of how they came to be... The rest of the book outlines the history of the greenway movement and describes different kinds of greenways.
(Land Stewardship Letter )One will not find a better guidebook to the twists and turns of this new journey than Greenways for America.
(Wilderness )About the Author
Charles E. Little is an author of a dozen books on American life and history and the environment. He lives and works in Placitas, New Mexico.
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Greenways for America Goes Places!,
By Roy D. Settle (Kingsport, TN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Greenways for America (Creating the North American Landscape) (Paperback)
This is a great work by Mr. Little. I have learned something each time I have read it (3 or 4)! He does an excellent job of dealing with technical subjects in a very readable narrative manner. His way of telling the story of the history of modern trails and greenways is inspirational in that it makes you want to go out and really do something in your community. He chronicles several projects with very different origins that all have been successful. If you are remotely interested in greenways and trails and how projects come together I highly recommend this book.
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As it happens, the tracks of the great park-maker, Frederick Law Olmsted, are all over the modern greenway movement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Staten Island, United States, Big Sur, Hudson River, Platte River, National Park Service, Heritage Trail, San Francisco, Canopy Roads, North Carolina, Robert Moses, French Broad, Prospect Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Long Island, Bay Trail, Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, Coney Island, Ocean Parkway, Tom Fox, Charles Eliot, High Rock, Pima County, Yakima Greenway New!
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As it happens, the tracks of the great park-maker, Frederick Law Olmsted, are all over the modern greenway movement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Staten Island, United States, Big Sur, Hudson River, Platte River, National Park Service, Heritage Trail, San Francisco, Canopy Roads, North Carolina, Robert Moses, French Broad, Prospect Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Long Island, Bay Trail, Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, Coney Island, Ocean Parkway, Tom Fox, Charles Eliot, High Rock, Pima County, Yakima Greenway New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Mad Dog: Stories by Heinrich Boll on 7 pages
- The Last Landscape by William H. Whyte on page 24, and Back Matter
- Big Sur (Images of America: California) by Jeff Norman on page 122, and Back Matter
- Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) by Ian L. McHarg on page 22, and Back Matter
- The Hudson River by RH BOYLE on page 85, and Back Matter
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- Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation (National Trust for Historic Preservation) by Samuel N. Stokes on 4 pages
- Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity by Wendy E. Hudson on page 162, page 164, and page 174
- The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth (Creating the North American Landscape) by Blake Gumprecht in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- With People in Mind: Design And Management Of Everyday Nature by Rachel Kaplan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- People Places: Design Guidlines for Urban Open Space, 2nd Edition by Clare Cooper Marcus in Front Matter, and page 120
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