New urban landscape : the redefinition of city form in nineteenth century America

By:

Schuyler, David

Publication details: London Johns Hopkins University Press 1993Description: xiv,237pISBN:

9780801837487

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

712.091732 SCH

Contents:

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

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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

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