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10 produkter
City Transformed
Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980
Häftad, 2002
404 kr
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As was true of many American cities, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, adopted urban renewal programs in the postwar years to revitalize a downtown that was experiencing economic decline. As the commercial and residential infrastructure of the city decayed, people and jobs migrated to the suburbs. Urban …
Sanctified Landscape
Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909
Inbunden, 2012
355 kr
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The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United …
New Urban Landscape
The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 1988
394 kr
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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 …
Petrolia
The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
Av Brian Black, Edward K. Muller m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
452 kr
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In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following …
America's Original GI Town
Park Forest, Illinois
Av Gregory C. Randall, Edward K. Muller m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
405 kr
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At the close of World War II, Americans became increasingly concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, and their families. Designs such as the garden city that dated from the turn of the twentieth century or earlier were prominent once again, as …
Embattled River
The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
Inbunden, 2018
357 kr
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In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern …
Embattled River
The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
Häftad, 2020
227 kr
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In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern …
Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
Creating Central Park, 1857–1861
Av Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles E. Beveridge m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
855 kr
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'The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company, 1865-1874' documents one of the most productive periods of Olmsted's career. During these years he and Vaux created their classic design for Prospect Park in Brooklyn, drew up plans for Riverside and Morningside parks in Manhattan, and designed Chicago's South …
Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895
Av Frederick Law Olmsted, David Schuyler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1102 kr
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In 1890, Frederick Law Olmsted, then nearly sixty-eight years old, had risen to the pinnacle of his career. Together with his partners, stepson John Charles Olmsted and protege Henry Sargent Codman, he was involved in a number of major ongoing projects, including the Boston, Buffalo, and Rochester …
