Author: Temple University. Libraries. Urban Archives. Pamphlet Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Chatham Village Second Unit, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Author: Temple University. Libraries. Urban Archives. Pamphlet Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Chatham Village
Author: Angelique Bamberg
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980703
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Chatham Village, located in the heart of Pittsburgh, is an urban oasis that combines Georgian colonial revival architecture with generous greenspaces, recreation facilities, surrounding woodlands, and many other elements that make living there a unique experience. Founded in 1932, it has gained international recognition as an outstanding example of the American Garden City planning movement and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2005. Chatham Village was the brainchild of Charles F. Lewis, then director of the Buhl Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based charitable trust. Lewis sought an alternative to the substandard housing that plagued low-income families in the city. He hired the New York-based team of Clarence S. Stein and Henry Wright, followers of Ebenezer Howard's utopian Garden City movement, which sought to combine the best of urban and suburban living environments by connecting individuals to each other and to nature. Angelique Bamberg provides the first book-length study of Chatham Village, in which she establishes its historical significance to urban planning and reveals the complex development process, social significance, and breakthrough construction and landscaping techniques that shaped this idyllic community. She also relates the design of Chatham Village to the work of other pioneers in urban planning, including Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., landscape architect John Nolen, and the Regional Planning Association of America, and considers the different ways that Chatham Village and the later New Urbanist movement address a common set of issues. Above all, Bamberg finds that Chatham Village's continued viability and vibrance confirms its distinction as a model for planned housing and urban-based community living.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980703
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Chatham Village, located in the heart of Pittsburgh, is an urban oasis that combines Georgian colonial revival architecture with generous greenspaces, recreation facilities, surrounding woodlands, and many other elements that make living there a unique experience. Founded in 1932, it has gained international recognition as an outstanding example of the American Garden City planning movement and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2005. Chatham Village was the brainchild of Charles F. Lewis, then director of the Buhl Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based charitable trust. Lewis sought an alternative to the substandard housing that plagued low-income families in the city. He hired the New York-based team of Clarence S. Stein and Henry Wright, followers of Ebenezer Howard's utopian Garden City movement, which sought to combine the best of urban and suburban living environments by connecting individuals to each other and to nature. Angelique Bamberg provides the first book-length study of Chatham Village, in which she establishes its historical significance to urban planning and reveals the complex development process, social significance, and breakthrough construction and landscaping techniques that shaped this idyllic community. She also relates the design of Chatham Village to the work of other pioneers in urban planning, including Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., landscape architect John Nolen, and the Regional Planning Association of America, and considers the different ways that Chatham Village and the later New Urbanist movement address a common set of issues. Above all, Bamberg finds that Chatham Village's continued viability and vibrance confirms its distinction as a model for planned housing and urban-based community living.
Chatham Village, Pittsburgh
Author: Temple University. Libraries. Urban Archives. Pamphlet Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Pioneers of American Landscape Design II
Author: Charles A. Birnbaum
Publisher: Department of Interior Na Ces Heritage Preservation
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Department of Interior Na Ces Heritage Preservation
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, June 30, 1956
Author: Chatham Village Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Publisher:
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Category : Garden cities
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Garden cities
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Paradise Planned
Author: Robert A.M. Stern
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580933262
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1073
Book Description
Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580933262
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1073
Book Description
Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.
Design on the Land
Author: Norman T. Newton
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780674198708
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780674198708
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Housing, the Continuing Problem
Author: United States. National Resources Planning Board
Publisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Housing Monograph Series, No. 1-4 ...
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Industrial Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Housing Monograph Series
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Industrial Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description