The grid and the river : Philadelphia's green places, 1682-1876

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The grid and the river : Philadelphia's green places, 1682-1876

Elizabeth Milroy

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2016

  • : cloth

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Summary: "A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within Penn's city plan and along the Schuylkill informed notions of place from the time of Philadelphia's founding to the formation of the modern Fairmount Park system in the mid-19th century"-- Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. [385]-404

Includes index

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Philadelphians are fond of quoting a letter in which William Penn described his vision of a "greene country towne, which will never be burnt & always wholesome." Today, Philadelphia's public parks cover more than ten thousand acres-roughly 11 percent of the city's area. They encompass extensive woodlands and waterways as well as the largest collection of historic properties in the state of Pennsylvania, including the Fairmount Water Works, the Philadelphia Zoo (the oldest zoo in the United States), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Grid and the River is the product of Elizabeth Milroy's quest to understand the history of public green spaces in William Penn's city. In this monumental work of urban history, Milroy traces efforts to keep Philadelphia "green" from the time of its founding to the late nineteenth century. She chronicles how patterns of use and representations of green spaces informed notions of community and identity in the city. In particular, Milroy examines the history of how and why the district along the Schuylkill River came to be developed both in opposition to and in concert with William Penn's original designations of parks in his city plan. Focusing on both the history and representation of Philadelphia's green spaces, and making use of a wealth of primary source materials, Milroy offers new insights into the city's political and cultural development and documents how changing attitudes toward the natural environment affected the physical appearance of Philadelphia's landscape and the lives of its inhabitants.

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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction City 1 The Origins of Penn's Squares 2 Patterns of Growth and Governance in the Centre City Suburb 3 The Liberty Lands 4 Suburban Villas in the Schuylkill Valley 5 Nurseries of National Virtue: Private Estates and Public Culture 6 Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Origins of the American Picturesque Consolidation 7 Reviving Penn's Plan 8 The Fairmount Water Works: Picturing Civic Virtue 9 Rural Cemeteries, River Parks, and the Search for Rational Recreation 10 Greening the Consolidated City 11 The Fairmount Park Commission: Park Building for Preservation and Conservation 12 Spatial Politics and the Centennial Exhibition 13 A Work Unfinished Notes Bibliography Index

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