The grid and the river Philadelphia's green places, 1682-1876
The origins of Penn's squaresPatterns of growth and governance in the centre city -- The liberty lands -- Suburban villas in the Schuylkill Valley -- Nurseries of national virtue : private estates and public culture -- Agriculture, horticulture, and the origins of the American picturesque -- Re...
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University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The origins of Penn's squaresPatterns of growth and governance in the centre city -- The liberty lands -- Suburban villas in the Schuylkill Valley -- Nurseries of national virtue : private estates and public culture -- Agriculture, horticulture, and the origins of the American picturesque -- Reviving Penn's plan -- The Fairmount Water Works : picturing civic virtue -- Rural cemeteries, river parks, and the search for rational recreation -- Greening the consolidated city -- The Fairmount Park Commission : park building for preservation and -- Spatial politics and the centennial exhibition -- A work unfinished. The origins of Penn's squares -- Patterns of growth and governance in the centre city -- The liberty lands -- Suburban villas in the Schuylkill Valley -- Nurseries of national virtue : private estates and public culture -- Agriculture, horticulture, and the origins of the American picturesque -- Reviving Penn's plan -- The Fairmount Water Works : picturing civic virtue -- Rural cemeteries, river parks, and the search for rational recreation -- Greening the consolidated city -- The Fairmount Park Commission : park building for preservation and -- Spatial politics and the centennial exhibition -- A work unfinished "A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within Penn's city plan and along the Schuylkill informed notions of place from the time of Philadelphia's founding to the formation of the modern Fairmount Park system in the mid-19th century"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-404) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvii, 418 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 0271066768 0-271-06676-8 9780271066769 978-0-271-06676-9 |