Author: Brenda Bullion
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
The Science and Art of Plants and Gardens in the Development of an American Landscape Aesthetic (1620-1850)
Author: Brenda Bullion
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930
Author: Terence Young
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874321
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900, a network of smaller parks and parkways was built, turning San Francisco into one of the nation's greenest cities. In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as athletics and education. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874321
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares where they could retreat from urban crowding, noise, and filth. Five short years later, city supervisors approved the creation of Golden Gate Park, the second largest urban park in America. Over the next sixty years, and particularly after 1900, a network of smaller parks and parkways was built, turning San Francisco into one of the nation's greenest cities. In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as athletics and education. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial
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Category : Arlington (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Arlington (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial: History
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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
History of Science in America, News and Views
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Isis Cumulative Bibliography 1986-1995: Subjects. Time periods: Antiquity through 18th century
Author: John Neu
Publisher: Science History Publications/USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher: Science History Publications/USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Historical Abstracts
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Art in History/History in Art
Author: David Freedberg
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.