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
(New studies in American intellectual and cultural history)(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. 227-232
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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 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
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