The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America / Edition 1

by David Schuyler

Overview

In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801837487
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1988
Series:	New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Schuyler is a coeditor of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Table of Contents

Part I. Changing Conceptions of Urban Form
Chapter 1. Flawed Visions: The Lessons of Washington and New York
Chapter 2. Toward a Redefinition of Urban Form and Culture
Chapter 3. The Didactic Landscape: Rural Cemeteries
Part II. The Evolution of the Urban Park
Chapter 4. The Ideology of the Public Park
Chapter 5. The Naturalistic Landscape: Central Park
Chapter 6. Cities and Parks: The Lessons of Central Park
Chapter 7. Parks, Parkways, and Park Systems
Part III. The New Urban Landscape
Chapter 8. Urban Decentralization and the Domestic Landscape
Chapter 9. The New City: A House with Many Rooms
Chapter 10. Transformation: The Neoclassical Cityscape
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index

Editorial Reviews

"An important contribution to our understanding of a design perspective that fostered a strong American heritage of urban parks and suburban spaces."

Journal of American History - Mary Corbin Sies

"The best single volume on nineteenth-century park development, and no existing work describes the origins and evolution of the naturalistic vision as capably as The New Urban Landscape. Moreover, Schuyler handles his subject with admirable economy and grace."

Reviews in American History

An important contribution to our understanding of a design perspective that fostered a strong American heritage of urban parks and suburban spaces.

— Mary Corbin Sies

Journal of American History