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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... National Conference on City Planning
Author: Town & County Edition of The American City
Author: Boston's "changeful Times"
Author: Michael HolleranPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866449
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
He describes subdivision design innovations and the use of deed restrictions, limits on building heights, and neighborhood zoning protection to control ever-increasing urban growth.
Burnham of Chicago
Author: Thomas S. HinesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226341720
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Daniel Burnham was the man who is largely responsible for the appearance of Chicago today, particularly the lake front parks. With his partner, John W. Root, he designed and built the first skyscrapers and the World's Columbian Exposition.--Publisher description.
The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
National Municipal Review
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Notes
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center
Author: Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Werner Hegemann And The Search For Universal Urbanism
Author: Craseman Christine CollinsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731569
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), a German-born multidisciplinary critic of the built environment, was well known in Europe and the United States in his lifetime. A critic rather than a designer, he did not fit easily into any school or category. To those seeking to promote modernism, Hegemann was something of an awkward figure - influential and undoubtedly authoritative but unorthodox. Today, however, when studies of modernism have largely shed their proselytizing role, he is of great relevance. Our interest now is less in those who proposed the answers than in those who asked the questions - and particularly the way in which those questions were framed. For this Hegemann is a key figure." "Based on documentation largely unavailable in English - including Hegemann's published and unpublished writings, his correspondence, his diaries, the author's interviews, archival materials lent to her by Hegemann's widow, and the author's own substantial collection - this is the first comprehensive study of Hegemann for historians, architects, and urbanists."--BOOK JACKET.
Warren H. Manning
Author: Robin KarsonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820350664
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Warren H. Manning's (1860-1938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America, from small home grounds to estates, cemeteries, college campuses, parks and park systems, and new industrial towns. Manning approached his design and planning projects from an environmental perspective, conceptualizing projects as components of larger regional (in some cases, national) systems, a method that contrasted sharply with those of his stylistically oriented colleagues. In this regard, as in many others, Manning had been influenced by his years with the Olmsted firm, where the foundations of his resource-based approach to design were forged. Manning's overlay map methods, later adopted by the renowned landscape architect Ian McHarg, providedthe basis for computer mapping software in widespread use today. One of the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Manning also ran one of the nation's largest offices, where he trained several influential designers, including Fletcher Steele, A. D. Taylor, Charles Gillette, and Dan Kiley. After Manning's death, his reputation slipped into obscurity. Contributors to the Warren H. Manning Research Project have worked more than a decade to assess current conditions of his built projects and to compile a richly illustrated compendium of site essays that illuminate the range, scope, and significance of Manning's notable career with specially commissioned photographs by Carol Betsch.