The grid and the river : Philadelphia's green places, 1682-1876 Elizabeth Milroy

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milroy, Elizabeth, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parks--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Parks.

City planning--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

City planning.

Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History.

Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Physical Description:

xvii, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within Penn's city plan and along the Schuylkill informed notions of place from the time of Philadelphia's founding to the formation of the modern Fairmount Park system in the mid-19th century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The origins of Penn's squares

Patterns of growth and governance in the centre city

The liberty lands

Suburban villas in the Schuylkill Valley

Nurseries of national virtue : private estates and public culture

Agriculture, horticulture, and the origins of the American picturesque

Reviving Penn's plan

The Fairmount Water Works : picturing civic virtue

Rural cemeteries, river parks, and the search for rational recreation

Greening the consolidated city

The Fairmount Park Commission : park building for preservation and

Spatial politics and the centennial exhibition

A work unfinished.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-404) and index.

ISBN:

9780271066769 (cloth : alk. paper)

0271066768 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

910475538