In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities.
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The best single volume on nineteenth-century park development, and no existing work describes the origins and evolution of the naturalistic vision as capably as The New Urban Landscape. Moreover, Schuyler handles his subject with admirable economy and grace.
(Reviews in American History )An important contribution to our understanding of a design perspective that fostered a strong American heritage of urban parks and suburban spaces.
(Mary Corbin Sies Journal of American History )
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century the United States was predominantly agrarian. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monumental civic space, urban gridiron, new urban landscape, urban decentralization, naturalistic parks, metropolitan park system, street arrangement, naturalistic landscape, recreational grounds, transverse roads, rural cemeteries, receiving reservoir, lower park, urban transportation systems, rural cemetery, pastoral scenery, agrarian ideology, suburban ideal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Central Park, Mount Auburn, United States, Prospect Park, Druid Hill, Frederick Law Olmsted, Library of Congress, Llewellyn Park, Laurel Hill, Calvert Vaux, Fairmount Park, Richard Morris Hunt, City Council, Flatbush Avenue, Manhattan Island, John Jay Smith, New England, New Jersey, Beaux Arts, Brooklyn Park Commission, Clarence Cook, Fort Greene, Franklin Park, Irving Park New!
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century the United States was predominantly agrarian. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monumental civic space, urban gridiron, new urban landscape, urban decentralization, naturalistic parks, metropolitan park system, street arrangement, naturalistic landscape, recreational grounds, transverse roads, rural cemeteries, receiving reservoir, lower park, urban transportation systems, rural cemetery, pastoral scenery, agrarian ideology, suburban ideal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Central Park, Mount Auburn, United States, Prospect Park, Druid Hill, Frederick Law Olmsted, Library of Congress, Llewellyn Park, Laurel Hill, Calvert Vaux, Fairmount Park, Richard Morris Hunt, City Council, Flatbush Avenue, Manhattan Island, John Jay Smith, New England, New Jersey, Beaux Arts, Brooklyn Park Commission, Clarence Cook, Fort Greene, Franklin Park, Irving Park New!
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- Landscape into Cityscape by Albert Fein on 7 pages
- Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (Notable American Authors) by Frederick Law Olmsted on 5 pages
- The New Metropolis by Edward K. Spann on 4 pages
- Rural Essays (Architecture and Decorative Art Series) by Andrew J. Downing on 4 pages
- Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America by Thomas Bender on 4 pages
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- Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 (Creating the North American Landscape) by Terence Young in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Boston's "Changeful Times": Origins of Preservation and Planning in America (Creating the North American Landscape) by Michael Holleran in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century by Mary P. Ryan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Robert Gottlieb in Back Matter
- Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Steven Stowe in Back Matter
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