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Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic
Looking at Buildings and Landscapes
Av Gabrielle M. Lanier, Bernard L. Herman
Häftad, 1997
523 kr
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From the eighteenth-century single-room "mansions" of Delaware's Cypress Swamp district to the early twentieth-century suburban housing around Philadelphia and Wilmington, the architectural landscape of the mid-Atlantic region is both rich and varied. In this pioneering field guide to the region's …
Rough Road to Renaissance
Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985
Häftad, 1990
468 kr
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After prospering in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, America's great urban centers faced economic, demographic, and political decline during the depression of the 1930s. When the Second World War brought economic recovery, politicians and planners of the 1940s confidently anticipated a …
To Build in a New Land
Ethnic Landscapes in North America
Häftad, 1992
488 kr
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A collection of twenty-two original essays by noted authorities on the distinctive cultural landscapes created by the immigration of various European groups, mostly in the nineteenth century, and the migrations of Black and Native American groups. A rich portrait of the ethnic groups that have …
Cities and Buildings
Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs
Häftad, 1994
436 kr
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In this text, Ford offers an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America. From office towers in the central business district to commercial strips in the "edge city", Ford shows …
City Beautiful Movement
Häftad, 1994
443 kr
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Critics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projects-broad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildings-as grandiose and unnecessary. In this masterful analysis, William H. Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in …
Jens Jensen
Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens
Häftad, 1998
536 kr
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Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes-a belief that was to become a major theme …
Magnetic Los Angeles
Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis
Av Greg Hise
Häftad, 1999
413 kr
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Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning and lacking any discernable order. Using Los Angeles as a case study, Greg Hise argues that the twentieth-century metropolitan region is the product …
Promise of Paradise
Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950
Häftad, 1995
406 kr
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In the first geographic and environmental analysis of the recreational and retirement community industry, Hubert B. Stroud shows how and why certain communities had positive impacts on the surrounding region while others did not. Focusing on well-known developments in Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, …
Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States
Inbunden, 2003
1148 kr
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A pair of gleaming rails embedded in a farmhouse driveway. A wooded cycling trail that traces an oddly level path through suburban hills. An abandoned high fill that briefly parallels the interstate. Today, little remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once …
Planting of New Virginia
Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
Inbunden, 2004
728 kr
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In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "New Virginia," the region west of the Blue Ridge Mountains set off the world of the farmer from that of the planter, grain and livestock production …
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 …
Appalachian Folkways
Inbunden, 2004
573 kr
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Appalachia may be the most mythologized and misunderstood place in America, its way of life and inhabitants both caricatured and celebrated in the mainstream media. Over generations, though, the families living in the mountainous region stretching from West Virginia to northeastern Alabama have …
City Building on the Eastern Frontier
Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City
Av Diane Shaw
Inbunden, 2004
712 kr
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America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the "rage for erecting villages is a perfect …
Planting of New Virginia
Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "New Virginia," the region west of the Blue Ridge Mountains set off the world of the farmer from that of the planter, grain and livestock production …
Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930
Häftad, 2008
417 kr
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In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city …
Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio
Inbunden, 2009
1176 kr
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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America. Railroad companies employed over a million workers, on the trains and along the tracks. Everything moved by rail: travelers, mail, and …
Benton MacKaye
Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail
Häftad, 2009
517 kr
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Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton MacKaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the concepts of preservation and recreation. Spanning three-quarters of a century, his long and productive career had a major impact on emerging movements …
Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 4: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan
Inbunden, 2012
1190 kr
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With his meticulously crafted, hand-drawn maps of America's complex and extensive railroad network, Richard C. Carpenter recaptures a time when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town. Before railroad mergers forced the abandonment of thousands of miles …
Great Society Subway
A History of the Washington Metro
Häftad, 2014
406 kr
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Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless …
Entrepreneurial Vernacular
Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s
Häftad, 2020
570 kr
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During the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S.Originally published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the …
Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War
Häftad, 2020
703 kr
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Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American GeographersOriginally published in 1998. "The plantation," writes Charles Aiken, "is among the most misunderstood institutions of American history. The demise of the plantation has been pronounced many times, but the large …
Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2020
570 kr
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Originally published in 2003. In Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Helen Tangires examines the role of the public marketplace—social and architectural—as a key site in the development of civic culture in America. More than simply places for buying and selling food, …
Across This Land
A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
Häftad, 2020
863 kr
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A fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present.Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson's Across This Land is a comprehensive regional geography of the …
Greenways for America
Häftad, 1995
367 kr
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From Brooklyn's parks and parkways, across the Iowa prairie, to Big Sur's coastal highway, people are drawing green lines on local maps and building "greenways"—linear open spaces that preserve and restore the skein of nature in cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Charles Little's Greenways for …
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic
Looking at Buildings and Landscapes
Av Gabrielle M. Lanier, Bernard L. Herman
Inbunden, 1997
631 kr
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From the 18th-century, single room "mansions" of Delaware's Cypress Swamp district to the early 20th-century suburban housing around Philadelphia and Wilmington, from the gable-fronted barns of Virginia's Eastern Shore to the stone bank barns of south-eastern Pennsylvania, the architectural …
Hamilton Park
A Planned Black Community in Dallas
Inbunden, 1998
551 kr
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World War II brought staggering changes to Dallas, Texas, as the city became a banking, commercial, and transportation center. The growing population strained available housing and put particular pressure on already overcrowded African-American neighborhoods. In Hamilton Park,William Wilson brings …
Invisible New York
The Hidden Infrastructure of the City
Inbunden, 1998
423 kr
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Invisible New York is a photographic exploration of the hidden and often abandoned infrastructure of New York City. Inaccessible and unknown to most New Yorkers, the structures and machinery captured in Stanley Greenberg's luminous black-and-white prints deliver the essential services that a city's …
Petrolia
The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
Av Brian Black
Inbunden, 2000
720 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 …
Silent Screens
The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater
Inbunden, 2000
517 kr
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The single-screen movie theaters that punctuated small-town America's main streets and city neighborhoods since the 1920s are all but gone. The well-dressed throng of moviegoers has vanished; the facades are boarded. In Silent Screens, photographer Michael Putnam captures these once prominent …
