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Plan of Minneapolis : prepared under the direction of the Civic Commission, MCMXVII / by Edward H. Bennett, architect ; edited and written by Andrew Wright Crawford, Esq.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA9127.M6 A5 1917
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Minnesota--Minneapolis.
- City planning.
- Art, Municipal--Minnesota--Minneapolis.
- Art, Municipal.
- Public works--Minnesota--Minneapolis.
- Public works.
- Minneapolis (Minn.)--Planning.
- Minneapolis (Minn.).
- Genre:
- Urban design.
- Urban planning.
- Maps
- Limitation statement (Printing)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 227, [1] pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colored and some folded), maps (some folded), plans ; 33 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Civic Commission, 1917.
- Contents:
- Foreword: The Civic Commission of Minneapolis
- The coming metropolis
- The dominating features
- The Sixth Avenue artery : an economic necessity
- The Institute of Fine Arts and Sixth Avenue
- The Eighth Street and Park Avenue arteries
- The Civic Plaza ; The Public Center ; The Court House ; The Administrative Center
- The inner ring-street : other street developments
- Gateway Park ; The transportation center
- Suburban and intra-urban transportation
- The dependence of individual homes on the street and transportation systems
- Housing and the garden suburb
- The limitation of skyscrapers
- Parks, playgrounds and part payment of the purchase price of public health
- The river fronts, the river bridges and Nicollet Island
- Street fixtures, street trees and street flowers
- Smoke, lost human energy and debased land values
- Railroad lines ; the Midway Clearing Yard
- The economic value of beauty to a city
- Financing, maintaining and executing the city plan
- Legal phases of the plan / by C. J. Rockwood, attorney of the Minneapolis Park Board.
- Notes:
- Includes a fold-out map (92 x 61 cm.) entitled: "1917 General plan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, showing complete street and park system, prepared for the Civic Commission of Minneapolis."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Myers fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: "One thousand copies printed September, 1917. Numbered 550."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954. Plan of Minneapolis.
- OCLC:
- 3929446
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