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John Nolen, landscape architect and city planner / R. Bruce Stephenson.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HT167 .S74 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stephenson, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nolen, John, 1869-1937.
- Nolen, John.
- City planners--United States--Biography.
- City planners.
- Landscape architects--United States--Biography.
- Landscape architects.
- United States.
- City planning--United States.
- City planning.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 294 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Library of American Landscape History, [2015]
- Summary:
- John Nolen (1869-1937) was the first American to identify himself exclusively as a town and city planner. In 1903, at the age of thirty-four, he enrolled in the new Harvard University program in landscape architecture, studying under Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Arthur Shurcliff. Two years later, he opened his own office in Harvard Square. Over the course of his career, Nolen and his firm completed more than four hundred projects, including comprehensive plans for more than twenty-five cities, across the United States. Like other progressive reformers of his era, Nolen looked to Europe for models to structure the rapid urbanization defining modern life into more efficient and livable form. His books, including New Towns for Old: Achievements in Civic Improvement in Some American Small Towns and Neighborhoods, promoted the new practice of city planning and were widely influential.
- Contents:
- 1 The Rise of an Urban Reformer, 1869-1902 7
- 2 Landscape Architect, 1902-1905 31
- 3 Charlotte, Letchworth, and Savannah, 1905-1907 47
- 4 City Planner, 1907-1908 69
- 5 City Planning in America and Europe, 1908-1911 93
- 6 Model Suburbs and Industrial Villages, 1909-1918 117
- 7 Kingsport and Mariemont, 1919-1926 149
- 8 Florida, 1922-1931 173
- 9 The Dean of American City Planning, 1931-1937 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781625340795
- 1625340796
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