Planning the twentieth-century American city / edited by Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver.

Other author Sies, Mary Corbin.
Other author Silver, Christopher, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Descriptionxiv, 594 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
City planning--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents The History of planning history / Mary Corbin Sies, Christopher Silver -- Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.: the visionary and the professional / Jon A. Peterson -- The City social movement: progressive women reformers and early social planning / Susan Marie Wirka -- Fenced-off corners and wider settings: the logic of civic improvement in early-twentieth-century St. Louis / Eric Sandweiss -- The Art and science of park planning in the United States: Chicago's small parks, 1902 to 1905 / Joan E. Draper -- The Design of Yorkship Garden Village: product of the progressive planning, architecture, and housing reform movements / Michael H. Lang -- Conservation, resource management, and regional planning: the pioneering role of Joseph Hyde Pratt / Robert E. Ireland -- 'Smokestacks and geraniums': planning and politics in San Diego / John Hancock --
Contents Planning, public works, and politics: the Trinity River reclamation project in Dallas / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Of swimming pools and 'slums': zoning and residential development in post-World War II Columbus, Ohio / Patricia Burgess -- Homebuilding and industrial decentralization in Los Angeles: the roots of the Post-Word War II urban region / Greg Hise -- Professional conflict over urban form: the case of urban freeways, 1930- to 1970 / Cliff Ellis -- Roots of the 'renaissance': federal incentives to urban planning, 1941 to 1948 / Thomas W. Hanchett -- World War II and urban California: city planning and the transformation hypothesis / Roger W. Lotchin -- Federal urban policy and the birth of democratic planning in Birmingham, Alabama, 1949 to 1974 / Charles E. Connerly -- Savannah's changing past: historic preservation planning and the social construction of a historic landscape, 1955 to 1985 / Robert Hodder -- Seeking a finer Detroit: the design and planning agenda of the 1960s / June Manning Thomas -- Five strategies for downtown: policy discourse and planning since 1943 / Carl Abbott -- The Impact of ideology on American town planning: from the Garden City to Battery Park City / Tony Schuman, Elliott Sclar -- Planning history and the new American metropolis / May Corbin Sies, Christopher Silver.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [517]-571) and index.
LCCN 95022859
ISBN0801851637 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0801851645 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HT167 .P557 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold