Author: American Society of Landscape Architects
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Transactions of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 1899-1926
Author: American Society of Landscape Architects
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Transactions of the American Society of Landscape Architects
Author: American Society of Landscape Architects
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Transactions of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 1922-1926
Author: American Society of Landscape Architects
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Author: Charles A. Birnbaum
Publisher: Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher: Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Landscape Architecture
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Unheralded Triumph
Author: Jon C. Teaford
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142143525X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142143525X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2398
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2398
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Scientific and Technical Societies of the United States and Canada
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Handbook of Scientific and Technical Societies and Institutions of the United States and Canada
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description