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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Village of Greendale
Author: Main Street Ready-Made
Author: Arnold R. AlanenPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870206958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The dream of the suburb is an old one in America. For more than a century, city dwellers have sought to escape the crowding and pollution of industrial centers for the quiet streets and green spaces on their fringes. In the 1930s, that dream inspired the largest migration of Americans in the twentieth century and led to the creation of Greendale, Wisconsin, one of three planned communities initially begun to resettle the rural poor hit hard by the Great Depression. This idea, though, quickly developed into a plan to revitalize cities and stabilize farming communities around the nation. The result was three “greenbelt towns” built from scratch, expressly for working-class families and within easy commuting distance of urban employment. Greendale, completed in 1938, was consciously designed as a midwestern town in both its physical character and social organization, where ordinary citizens could live in a safe, attractive, economical community that was in harmony with the surrounding farmland. “Main Street Ready-Made” examines Greendale as an outgrowth of public policy, an experiment in social engineering, and an organic community that eventually evolved to embrace a huge shopping mall, condominiums, and expensive homes while still preserving much of the architecture and ambiance of the original village. A snapshot of 1930s idealism and ingenuity, “Main Street Ready-Made” makes a significant contribution to the history of cities, suburbs, and social planning in mid-century America.
Greendale
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898214116
Category : Greendale (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Economic and Ecologic Base Village of Greendale, Wisconsin
Author: Nelson-Ball and AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Greendale
Author: Clarence Walter HackbarthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Greendale Remembers
Author: Send for Me
Author: Lauren FoxPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101947810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! Based on the author’s own family letters, Send for Me tells the story of Annelise, a young woman in prewar Germany. Growing up working at her parents’ popular bakery, she's always imagined a future full of delicious possibilities. Despite rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, Annelise and her parents can’t quite believe that it will affect them; they’re hardly religious. But as she falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the dangers grow closer. Soon Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and safety are uncertain. Two generations later in a small Midwestern city, Annelise’s granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon a trove of the letters her great-grandmother wrote from Germany after Annelise's departure, she sees the history of her family’s sacrifices in a new light, leading her to question whether she can still honor the past while planning for her future.
Reconnaissance Study, Village of Greendale, Wisconsin
Author: Nelson-Ball and AssociatesPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This is Greendale
Author: Recipes from the Kitchens of the Historic Village of Greendale
Author: Village Quilters of GreendalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking, American
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description