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Shaping American democracy : landscapes and urban design

Roulier, Scott M.

Shaping American democracy : landscapes and urban design - Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan 2018 - ix,237p.

Contents
1 American Democracy and Its Spaces: An Introduction 1
Part I Primary Landscapes 25
2 American Pastoral: Jefferson's Agrarian Republic 27
3 Democracy Gone Wtld: Thoreau and the Wilderness Tradition 47
Part II Rival Democratic Designs 73
4 Olmsted's Public Parks: Civic-Spirited Design 75
5 Democracy and Individuality: Frank Lloyd Wright's
Broadacres and the Burbs 105
Part III Modernism: Promise, Problems
and New Prescriptions 133
6 Democratic Ambivalence: Robert Moses
and Modernist Urban Planning 135
7 Democracy and Civic Ecology: New Urbanism 157
Part IV Design Portfolios: A Juried Competition 179
8 Democratic Designs: A Multipronged•Assessment 181
9 Conclusion 221
Index 233

ISBN: 9783319688091

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Dewey Class. No.: 711.40973 / ROU

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