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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Fort Worth Texas
Author: Planning Fort Worth, Texas: Past, Present, Future
Author: Fort Worth (Tex.). City Planning DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citt planning
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Economic Development and the Planning Function in Fort Worth, Texas
Author: Douglas HarmonPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages :
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Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: Committee for the Future of Fort Worth Final Report
Author: Committee for the Future of Fort WorthPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Fort Worth
Author: Harold RichPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s—and the nation’s—largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. But along the way, the city’s future, let alone its present prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years, setting a pattern of boom-and-bust progress that would see the city through to the twenty-first century. Harold Rich takes up the story in 1880, when Fort Worth found itself in the crosshairs of history as the cattle drives that had been such an economic boon became a thing of the past. He explores the hard-fought struggle that followed—with its many stops, failures, missteps, and successes—beginning with a single-minded commitment to attracting railroads. Rail access spurred the growth of a modern municipal infrastructure, from paved streets and streetcars to waterworks, and made Fort Worth the transportation hub of the Southwest. Although the Panic of 1893 marked another setback, the arrival of Armour and Swift in 1903 turned the city’s fortunes once again by expanding its cattle-based economy to include meatpacking. With a rich array of data, Fort Worth documents the changes wrought upon Fort Worth’s economy in succeeding years by packinghouses and military bases, the discovery of oil and the growth of a notorious vice district, Hell’s Half Acre. Throughout, Rich notes the social trends woven inextricably into this economic history and details the machinations of municipal politics and personalities that give the story of Fort Worth its unique character. The first thoroughly researched economic history of the city’s early years in more than five decades, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Fort Worth, urban history and municipal development, or the history of Texas and the West.
Urban Morphology, Open Space Planning and Analysis Tools
Author: Dandan ZhuPublisher:
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Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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This thesis focuses on the relationship between the parks system and city growth patterns in Fort Worth, Texas. It describes the evolution of the city's parks as well as the city's urban morphology since the inception of 1909 Kessler city park plan. Throughout Fort Worth's history, open space planning has played a key role in the city's development policies (City of Fort Worth Planning and Development Department 2004). Kessler's 1909 original park plan for the City of Fort Worth still serves as the basis for major park facilities (City of Fort Worth 2012). Evolution of the parks system in Fort Worth demonstrates the value of implementing plans for city development over time. The thesis illustrates how a plan that is over a century old can influence the patterns of community growth and how the plan is accomplished.Urban morphology is "a study of city as human habitat" (Moudon 1997 p.3). In this research it refers to the shape and forms of Fort Worth over time. By comparing the parks shape and the urban morphology of Fort Worth, the study demonstrates how Fort Worth has integrated and relied on its park plans since 1909 Kessler plan. This study verifies how the Kessler plan has helped to protect the city's natural resources and it has influenced the city's shape over time. Qualitative research methods were used for this study because the research questions require information about how people think and act regarding policies followed by the city (Taylor and Bogdan 1985). Interviews were conducted with individuals involved in the city's Department of Planning and Development, and Department of Parks and Community Services as well as firms that has provided planning and design for Fort Worth. Transcripts of the interviews provided a narrative for analysis in this thesis. Graphic Information Systems (GIS) was used as a tool to create maps and provide a mode for analysis. In conclusion, this thesis presents the evolution of the parks system as well as the influence on the urban morphology in the city of Fort Worth based on Kessler's plan. It also discusses how Fort Worth has integrated and protected this plan, which is being used as direction for the immediate future.
Museums, libraries, and 21st century skills
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Category : Libraries and education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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