TY - GEN AU - Schuyler, David TI - New urban landscape : the redefinition of city form in nineteenth century America SN - 9780801837487 U1 - 712.091732 PY - 1993/// CY - London PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part One . Changing Conceptions of Urban Form I. Flawed visions: the lessons of Washington and New York 11 II. Towards a redefinition of urban form and culture 24 III. The Didactic Landscape: rural cemeteries 37 Part Two. The Evolution of the urban Park IV. the Ideology of the public Park 59 V. The Naturalistic Landscape: Central Park 77 VI. Cities and Parks: the lessons of Central Park 101 VII.Parks, Parkways, and Park Systems 126 Part Three. The New urban landscape VIII. Urban Decentralization and the Domestic Landscape 149 Ix. The New city : a house with many rooms 167 X. transformation: the Neoclassical cityscape 180 Notes 197 Bibliographical Essay 227 Index 233 ER -