Tva's Public Planning
Tva's Public Planning

Author: Walter L. Creese

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781572332546

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Traditionally, the TVA has been viewed as a unique response to special circumstances, largely lacking in historical precedents. Countering this assumption, Creese reveals the varied political, social, architectural, and technical currents that directly shaped the TVA vision, which he calls the largest, most optimistic, most skillful, planning project ever undertaken. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Long-range Public Investment
Long-range Public Investment

Author: Robert D. Leighninger

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781570036637

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Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal is augmented by fifty-eight photographs.

The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program
The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program

Author: David A. Johnson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1351880853

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Based on the memoirs of Aelred J. Gray, former chief planner, this book reviews how the Tennessee Valley Agency (TVA) - a world-renowned model for regional planning and development - functioned and changed through the decades. It shows how the TVA pioneered land-use planning to create state parks alongside the Tennessee river's hydro-electric power stations and dams, how it developed model towns, influenced city planning and introduced the landmark Flood Damage Prevention program.

Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture
Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture

Author: Michel Conan

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780884022787

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The papers presented in this volume range from proposals for new design approaches, historical analysis of the relationship between the practice of landscape architecture and environmentalism, to the theories of early practitioners of landscape architecture imbued by an environmentalist outlook. The issues above are addressed through topics as eclectic as the design of American zoos, the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority, road design and maintenance in Texas, and criticism of relationships between the words and works of select landscape architects. This volume provides a fresh approach to encounters between environmentalism and landscape architecture by reframing the issues through self-reflection instead of strategic debate.

Architecture and Nature
Architecture and Nature

Author: Sarah Bonnemaison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1134455399

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Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. This book explores how such rhetorical landscapes have also been designed into into the built environment of architecture.