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The Grid and the River

Philadelphia's Green Places, 1682-1876
  • ISBN-13: 9780271066769
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Elizabeth Milroy
  • Price: AUD $169.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2016
  • Format: Hardback 464 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of architecture [AMX]
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A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within William Penn’s Philadelphia city plan and along the Schuylkill River informed notions of place, from the city's founding to the formation of the Fairmount Park system in the mid-nineteenth century.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

City

1 The Origins of Penn’s Squares

2 Patterns of Growth and Governance in the Centre City

Suburb

3 The Liberty Lands

4 Suburban Villas in the Schuylkill Valley

5 Nurseries of National Virtue: Private Estates and Public Culture

6 Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Origins of the American Picturesque

Consolidation

7 Reviving Penn’s Plan

8 The Fairmount Water Works: Picturing Civic Virtue

9 Rural Cemeteries, River Parks, and the Search for Rational Recreation

10 Greening the Consolidated City

11 The Fairmount Park Commission: Park Building for Preservation and Conservation

12 Spatial Politics and the Centennial Exhibition

13 A Work Unfinished

Notes

Bibliography

Index


The Grid and the River unveils the timeless and dynamic tension between nature and the city. In an increasingly urban world, this book is essential reading for those who can still see a future graced by green and wholesome cities.”

—Bruce Stephenson, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

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