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100 _aSchuyler, David
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245 _aNew urban landscape : the redefinition of city form in nineteenth century America
260 _aLondon
_bJohns Hopkins University Press
_c1993
300 _axiv,237p.
505 _aCONTENTS 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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