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Author : Staten Island Improvement Commission
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Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book Report of a Preliminary Scheme of Improvements written by Staten Island Improvement Commission and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Madison PEYTON
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Letters and Speeches of ... W. M. Peyton, with a preliminary biographical sketch by his brother, J. L. Peyton written by William Madison PEYTON and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351308661
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Park Maker written by Elizabeth Stevenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 28, 1858, municipal officials announced the winner of the design contest for a great new park for the people of New York City--Plan no. 33, "Greensward" by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Though the appropriated ground for what was to become Central Park was nothing more than a barren expanse occupied by squatters, in a matter of a few years, Olmsted turned the wasteland into a landscape of coherence, elegance, and beauty. It not only surpassed the design ingenuity of its existing European counterparts but gained the designer national acclaim in a profession that still lacked a name. Olmsted was an American visionary. He foresaw the day when New York and many other growing cities of the mid-nineteenth century would be plagued by what we presently term "urban sprawl." And he was convinced of the critical importance of adapting land for the recreational and contemplative needs of city dwellers before the last remnants of natural terrain were engulfed by "monotonous, straight streets and piles of erect, angular buildings." As a result of his early efforts to revolutionize the design of public parks, many cities today are able to preserve the recreational space and greenery within their urban limits. In addition, his thoughts and words on wilderness areas still echo across a century of preservation in the wild. This lively and insightful account of his prodigious life features many of his outstanding landscape projects, including the Biltmore Estate, Prospect Park (Brooklyn), the capitol grounds in Washington, DC, the Boston Park System, the Chicago parks and the Chicago World Fair, as well as measures to preserve the natural settings at Niagara Falls, Yosemite, and the Adirondacks. It traces his early years and describes events that were to form his artistic, intellectual, and deeply humanistic sensibilities. And it restores this lost American hero to his prominent place in history. In addition to being the acknowledged father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted helped shape the political and philosophical climate of America in his own time and today. Elizabeth Stevenson is the author of the Bancroft Award-winning Henry Adams: A Biography; The Glass Lark, a biography of Lafcadio Hearn; and Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression, all available from Transaction.
Author : Michael Holleran
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866449
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Boston's "changeful Times" written by Michael Holleran and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He describes subdivision design innovations and the use of deed restrictions, limits on building heights, and neighborhood zoning protection to control ever-increasing urban growth.
Author : M. Christine Boyer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262521116
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Dreaming the Rational City written by M. Christine Boyer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city. Boyer shows why city planning, which had so much promise at the outset for making cities more liveable, largely failed. She reveals planning's real responsibilities and goals, including the kind of "rational order" that was actually forseen by the planning mentality, and concludes that the planners have continuously served the needs of the dominant capitalist economy.
Author : Patsy Healey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351910361
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Political Economy, Diversity and Pragmatism written by Patsy Healey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities. The second volume in this series covers in detail critical political economy, the turn to diversity and critical pragmatism. It provides an authoritative collection, in an accessible form, of the most important and influential articles and papers along with a detailed introduction by the editors. It offers a unique reference resource for planning scholars, upper-level undergraduate and post-graduate students.
Author : Arnold Arboretum. Library
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Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University written by Arnold Arboretum. Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. President's Committee on Civil Service Improvement
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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents and Reports to Accompany Report on Civil Service Improvement ... written by United States. President's Committee on Civil Service Improvement and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon A. Peterson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801872105
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917 written by Jon A. Peterson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Arnold Arboretum. Library
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Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Subject catalogue with supplement to volume I. written by Arnold Arboretum. Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Pregill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471293288
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Landscapes in History written by Philip Pregill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-01-25 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, one-stop reference to the history of landscape architecture-now expanded and revised This revised edition of Landscapes in History features for the first time new information-rarely available elsewhere in the literature-on landscape architecture in India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. It also expands the discussion of the modern period, including current North American planning and design practices. This unique, highly regarded book traces the development of landscape architecture and environmental design from prehistory to modern times-in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. It covers the many cultural, political, technological, and philosophical issues influencing land use throughout history, focusing not only on design topics but also on the environmental impact of human activity. Landscape architects, urban planners, and students of these disciplines will find here: * The most comprehensive, in-depth, and up-to-date overview of the subject * Hundreds of stunning photographs and design illustrations * A scholarly yet accessible treatment, drawing on the latest research in archaeology, geography, and other disciplines * The authors' own firsthand observations and travel experiences * Insight into the evolution of landscape architecture as a discipline * Useful chapter summaries and bibliographies
Author : Kara Murphy Schlichting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022661302X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book New York Recentered written by Kara Murphy Schlichting and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.
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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Mahlon Sweet Field Runway Improvement and Construction, Eugene written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Corbin Sies
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801851643
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Planning the Twentieth-century American City written by Mary Corbin Sies and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.
Author : Howrah Improvement Trust
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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Administration Report on the Operations of the Howrah Improvement Trust, 1957-58 to 1965-66 written by Howrah Improvement Trust and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Arboretum. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Serial publications - Authors and titles written by Arnold Arboretum. Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation
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Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report on the Administration of the Road Fund written by Great Britain. Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
