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The new urban landscape : the redefinition of city form in nineteenth-century America

Print Book, English, ©1988
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Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©1988
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xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801837487, 9780801832314, 0801837480, 0801832314
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Part I. Changing Conceptions of Urban FormChapter 1. Flawed Visions: The Lessons of Washington and New YorkChapter 2. Toward a Redefinition of Urban Form and CultureChapter 3. The Didactic Landscape: Rural CemeteriesPart II. The Evolution of the Urban ParkChapter 4. The Ideology of the Public ParkChapter 5. The Naturalistic Landscape: Central ParkChapter 6. Cities and Parks: The Lessons of Central ParkChapter 7. Parks, Parkways, and Park SystemsPart III. The New Urban LandscapeChapter 8. Urban Decentralization and the Domestic LandscapeChapter 9. The New City: A House with Many RoomsChapter 10. Transformation: The Neoclassical CityscapeNotesBibliographic EssayIndex