John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner
John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner

Author: Robert Bruce Stephenson

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781625340795

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise of an Urban Reformer, 1869-1902 -- 2. Landscape Architect, 1902-1905 -- 3. Charlotte, Letchworth, and Savannah, 1905-1907 -- 4. City Planner, 1907-1908 -- 5. City Planning in America and Europe, 1908-1911 -- 6. Model Suburbs and Industrial Villages, 1909-1918 -- 7. Kingsport and Mariemont, 1919-1926 -- 8. Florida, 1922-1931 -- 9. The Dean of American City Planning, 1931-1937 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

Mariemont
Mariemont

Author: Millard F. Rogers

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 9780821419724

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Today’s visitor to Mariemont, Ohio, encounters what appears to be a community from another place and time, perhaps a country village in England’s Cotswold region. Tree-lined streets pass through neighborhoods lined with Tudor- and Georgian-style buildings. A stone church with a roof that dates from 1300 abuts an early settlement graveyard. This remarkable village is the masterpiece of the eminent town planner John Nolen (1869–1937) and the vision of philanthropist Mary M. Emery (1844–1927). Located near Cincinnati, Mariemont was designed as a self-sufficient town, its inspiration derived from the English Garden City and concepts developed in the early twentieth century. In 2007, Mariemont earned National Historic Landmark status from the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior. Today, it serves as a “National Exemplar” for twenty-first-century developers, including those of the New Urbanist movement. Mariemont: A Pictorial History of a Model Town presents both archival photographs that trace the creation, construction, and growth of the town and contemporary views by noted Cincinnati photographer Robert Flischel. Photographs from the rich collection of the Mariemont Preservation Foundation, including rare images made of the area in the 1870s–80s and by John Nolen and Nancy Ford Cones in the 1920s, mark this important experiment in architecture and urban design.

John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape
John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape

Author: Jody Beck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0415664845

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An in-depth look at a prolific US landscape architect, who was engaged in nearly 400 projects throughout the United States between 1905 and 1936, including estate gardens, State Parks and new towns.

Rich in Good Works
Rich in Good Works

Author: Millard F. Rogers

Publisher: Ohio History and Culture (Hard

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Mary Muhlenberg Hopkins, as the wife of Thomas J. Emery and as his widow and heiress of a fortune, shied from public acclaim. Even after the death of her husband, when her many philanthropies were initiated, she deferred to his memory and most often attached his name, not hers, to the various projects or institutions she supported."--BOOK JACKET.

Robert Moses and the Modern City
Robert Moses and the Modern City

Author: Hilary Ballon

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008-08-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0393732436

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A fresh look at the greatest builder in the history of New York City and one of its most controversial figures. “We are rebuilding New York, not dispersing and abandoning it”: Robert Moses saw himself on a rescue mission to save the city from obsolescence, decentralization, and decline. His vast building program aimed to modernize urban infrastructure, expand the public realm with extensive recreational facilities, remove blight, and make the city more livable for the middle class. This book offers a fresh look at the physical transformation of New York during Moses’s nearly forty-year reign over city building from 1934 to 1968.It is hard to imagine that anyone will ever have the same impact on New York as did Robert Moses. In his various roles in city and state government, he reshaped the fabric of the city, and his legacy continues to touch the lives of all New Yorkers. Revered for most of his life, he is now one of the most controversial figures in the city’s history. Robert Moses and the Modern City is the first major publication devoted to him since Robert Caro’s damning 1974 biography, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.In these pages eight short essays by leading scholars of urban history provide a revised perspective; stunning new photographs offer the first visual record of Moses’s far-reaching building program as it stands today; and a comprehensive catalog of his works is illustrated with a wealth of archival records: photographs of buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes, of parks, pools, and playgrounds, of demolished neighborhoods and replacement housing and urban renewal projects, of bridges and highways; renderings of rejected designs and controversial projects that were defeated; and views of spectacular models that have not been seen since Moses made them for promotional purposes.Robert Moses and the Modern City captures research undertaken in the last three decades and will stimulate a new round of debate.

Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1421410869

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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) planned many parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed and defended today. His public parks, the design of which he was most proud, have had a lasting effect on urban America.