The new urban landscape : the redefinition of city form in nineteenth-century America

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The new urban landscape : the redefinition of city form in nineteenth-century America

David Schuyler

(New studies in American intellectual and cultural history)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

  • : pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 227-232

Includes index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

Part I. Changing Conceptions of Urban Form Chapter 1. Flawed Visions: The Lessons of Washington and New York Chapter 2. Toward a Redefinition of Urban Form and Culture Chapter 3. The Didactic Landscape: Rural Cemeteries Part II. The Evolution of the Urban Park Chapter 4. The Ideology of the Public Park Chapter 5. The Naturalistic Landscape: Central Park Chapter 6. Cities and Parks: The Lessons of Central Park Chapter 7. Parks, Parkways, and Park Systems Part III. The New Urban Landscape Chapter 8. Urban Decentralization and the Domestic Landscape Chapter 9. The New City: A House with Many Rooms Chapter 10. Transformation: The Neoclassical Cityscape Notes Bibliographic Essay Index

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