Stephenson R. Bruce John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner 9781952620324

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Автор: Stephenson R. Bruce
Название: John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner
ISBN: 9781952620324
Классификация:

Ландшафтное искусство и архитектура

ISBN-10: 1952620325
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.65 кг.
Дата издания: 07.10.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 15 halftones, color; 80 halftones, black and white; 29 illustrations, color; 29 illustrations, black and white
Размер: 25.32 x 18.16 x 1.45 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape StudiesIn this insightful biography, Bruce Stephenson analyzes the details of John Nolens experiments, illuminating the planning principles he used in laying out communities from Mariemont, Ohio, to Venice, Florida. Stephensons conclusion discusses the potential of Nolens work as a model of a sustainable vision relevant to American civic culture today.John Nolen (1869-1937) studied economics, philosophy, and public administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where his keen intelligence and remarkable administrative abilities were immediately recognized. In 1903, at the age of thirty-four, Nolen enrolled in the new Harvard University program in landscape architecture, studying under Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Arthur Shurcliff. Two years later, Nolen opened his office in Harvard Square.Over the course of his career, Nolen and his firm completed more than 400 projects, including comprehensive plans for twenty-nine cities and twenty-seven new towns, all of them in the United States. Like other reformers of the Progressive Era, Nolen looked to Europe for models to structure the rapid urbanization defining modern life into more efficient and livable form. Nolens mutually influential relationship with Raymond Unwin, Englands preeminent garden city planner, typified the Atlantic Crossings that produced a host of intensely interesting planning experiments in England, Europe, and the United States during the first decades of the twentieth century. Nolen has never received the systematic assessment that he deserves despite being the subject of so much writing--the Stephenson biography stands alone. The author makes a convincing case that Nolen was a pivotal figure in the profession of city planning and that his contributions were uniquely situated to bridge the fields of landscape architecture and planning. This is an exceptionally fine work.Christopher Silver, author of Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth CenturyThe long overdue and definitive biography of one of Americas most prominent and influential urbanists. . . . Stephenson effectively positions Nolen between the classical practitioners of the nineteenth century and the modern ecological focus of the twentieth century (which he helped to establish).Keith N. Morgan, coauthor of Community by Design: The Olmsted Office and the Development of Brookline, MassachusettsIn this deeply researched and richly detailed biography . . . Stephenson focuses attention on a figure who has been curiously understudied and who arguably deserves additional scrutiny on several topics―from his ideas about race and class to his proto-environmentalism, all key interests among Progressive reformers.Journal of Southern HistoryStephenson offers a richly developed biographical portrait of Nolen interwoven with a detailed discussion of his numerous planning projects. . . . [The] biographical component allows the reader to see how Nolens life experiences shaped his professional work. Especially impressive is Stephensons discussion of Nolen as a progressive during his work at ASEUT and his early travels to Europe. . . . The numerous color photographs make the book a visual delight and the excellent index makes referencing the book a breeze.Journal of Planning History

John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner, Stephenson R. Bruce