John Nolen Landscape Architect City Planner, Stephenson, UMass Press 2015 v good

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Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Book Title
John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Vintage
No
Item Height
10.5 in
Features
Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre
Art & Culture, History
Subject
Landscape Architecture, City Planning
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9781625340795
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-10
1625340796
ISBN-13
9781625340795
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211953467

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
368 Pages
Publication Name
John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Landscape, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Regional, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
R. Bruce Stephenson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
10.3 in
Item Width
7.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-043991
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230425
Reviews
Stephenson offers a richly developed biographical portrait of Nolen interwoven with a detailed discussion of his numerous planning projects.... [The] biographical component allows the reader to see how Nolen's life experiences shaped his professional work. Especially impressive is Stephenson's discussion of Nolen as a progressive during his work at ASEUT and his early travels to Europe.... The numerous color photographs make the book a visual delight and the excellent index makes referencing the book a breeze., In this deeply researched and richly detailed biography... Stephenson focuses attention on a figure who has been curiously understudied and who arguably deserves additional scrutiny on several topics--from his ideas about race and class to his proto-environmentalism, all key interests among Progressive reformers.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
711/.4092 B
Synopsis
John Nolen (1869--1937) was the first American to identify himself exclusively as a town and city planner. In 1903, at the age of thirty-four, he enrolled in the new Harvard University program in landscape architecture, studying under Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Arthur Shurcliff. Two years later, he opened his own office in Harvard Square. Over the course of his career, Nolen and his firm completed more than four hundred projects, including comprehensive plans for more than twenty-five cities, across the United States. Like other progressive reformers of his era, Nolen looked to Europe for models to structure the rapid urbanization defining modern life into more efficient and livable form. His books, including New Towns for Old: Achievements in Civic Improvement in Some American Small Towns and Neighborhoods, promoted the new practice of city planning and were widely influential. In this insightful biography, R. Bruce Stephenson analyzes the details of Nolen's many experiments, illuminating the planning principles he used in laying out communities from Mariemont, Ohio, to Venice, Florida. Stephenson concludes by discussing the potential of Nolen's work as a model of a sustainable vision relevant to American civic culture today.
LC Classification Number
HT167.S74 2015

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