The Physical City: Public Space and the Infrastructure

by Shumsky,Neil L.

• ISBN13: 9780815321873
• ISBN10: 0815321872
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
The "Rural" Cemetery Movement: Urban Travail and the Appeal of Nature	p. 2
Politics and the Park: The Fight for Central Park	p. 18
Private Plans for Public Spaces: The Origins of Chicago's Park System, 1850-1875	p. 51
Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform	p. 63
The Landscaper's Utopia Versus the City: A Mismatch	p. 85
The Frederick Law Olmsted Plan for Tacoma	p. 101
The City Beautiful Movement: Forgotten Origins and Lost Meanings	p. 109
The City Beautiful in New York	p. 130
A Reconsideration of the 1909 "Plan of Chicago"	p. 154
The Commercial-Civic Elite and City Planning in Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans in the 1920s	p. 165
Radburn: Planning the American Community	p. 195
Rexford Guy Tugwell: Initiator of America's Greenbelt New Towns, 1935 to 1936	p. 212
Frank Lloyd Wright and the American City: The Broadacres Debate	p. 225
City Planners and Urban Transportation: The American Response, 1900-1940	p. 235
Historic Planning and Redevelopment in Minneapolis	p. 268
Urban Planning as Policy Analysis: Management of Urban Change	p. 279
To Engineer the Metropolis: Sewers, Sanitation, and City Planning in Late-Nineteenth-Century America	p. 289
Drainage, Disease, Comfort, and Class: A History of Newark's Sewers	p. 313
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind": The Environment and Disposal of Municipal Refuse, 1860-1920	p. 331
Atlanta's Water Supply, 1865-1918	p. 351
Los Angeles Aqueduct: A Search for Water	p. 369
A Neglected Aspect of the Owens River Aqueduct Story: The Inception of the Los Angeles Municipal Electric System	p. 387
Acknowledgments	p. 413
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