Melodramatic landscapes : urban parks in the nineteenth century / Heath Massey Schenker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schenker, Heath.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban parks--History--19th century.

Urban parks.

Urban parks--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Social aspects.

Landscape architectural projects.

History.

Chapultepec (Mexico City, Mexico)--History--19th century.

Chapultepec (Mexico City, Mexico).

Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--History--19th century.

Central Park (New York, N.Y.).

Landscape architectural projects--History--19th century.

Urban parks--Social aspects.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.

Olmsted, Frederick Law.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

ix, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Contents:

1 Parks in Paris during the Second Empire 25

2 Chapultepec Park and the Staging of Modern Mexico 67

3 Central Park and the Melodramatic Imagination 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Includes information on the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, Adolphe Alphand, and Georges Eugène Haussmann.

Athenaeum copy: Erpf Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780813928425

0813928427

OCLC:

475039169