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Author:   Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781138874053

ISBN 10:   1138874051
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   07 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Volume Introduction THE LANDSCAPE TRADITION The Rural Cemetery Movement: Urban Travail and the Appeal of Nature ; Politics and the Park: The Fight for Central Park; Private Plans for Public Spaces: The Origins of Chicago's Park System, 1850-1875; Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform; The Landscaper's Utopia Versus the City: A Mismatch; The Frederick Law Olmsted Plan for Tacoma THE CITY BEAUTIFUL AND THE CITY EFFICIENT The City Beautiful Movement: Forgotten Origins and Lost Meanings ; The City Beautiful in New York; A Reconsideration of the 1909 Plan of Chicago The Commercial-Civic Elite and City Planning in Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans in the 1920s; PLANNING COMMUNITIES Radburn: Planning the American Community; Rexford Guy Tugwell: Initiator of America's Greenbelt New Towns, 1935 to 1936; Frank Lloyd Wright and the American City: The Broadacres Debate CONTEMPORARY PLANNING City Planners and Urban Transportation: The American Response, 1900-1940; Historic Planning and Redevelopment in Minneapolis; Urban Planning as Policy Analysis: Management of Urban Change THE ENGINEERING TRADITION To Engineer the Metropolis: Sewers, Sanitation, and City Planning in Late-Nineteenth-Century America; Drainage, Disease, Comfort, and Class: A History of Newark's Sewers ; Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Environment and Disposal of Municipal Refuse, 1860-1920; Atlanta's Water Supply, 1865-1918; Los Angeles Aqueduct: A Search for Water; A Neglected Aspect of the Owens River Aqueduct Story: The Inception of the Los Angeles Municipal Electric System

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Neil Larry Shumsky Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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