Highland Park And River Oaks

Author : Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292748361
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Park and River Oaks written by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shows how the developers of Highland Park in Dallas and River Oaks in Houston were trying to create better living conditions in a countryside atmosphere away from the uncontrolled development that had blighted late 19th-century and early 20th-century urban neighborhoods in Texas. Also explores why planned suburban and community growth failed at the city-wide level and remained confined to elite suburbs. Also looks at subdivisions in Fort Worth, San Antonio, Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Beaumont, Galveston, and Port Arthur to provide information on how city planners worked with landscape architects to incorporate infrastructure improvements, coordinate landscape planning, and employ such legal devices as restrictive covenants to shape elite space coherently. The work of Texas' foremost suburban house architects, such as C.D. Hill, William Ward Watkin, and John F. Staub, is also analyzed"--

Author : Robert A.M. Stern
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933262
Total Pages : 1073 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Planned written by Robert A.M. Stern and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.

Author : R. Lawrence Good
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Houses of the Park Cities written by R. Lawrence Good and published by . This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Author : Julia Johnas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738551012
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Park written by Julia Johnas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highland Park represents one of the finest examples of late-19th-century suburban development. Its abundant natural beauty was quickly recognized and preserved by the visionary design of two well-known landscape architects, Horace W. S. Cleveland and William M. R. French. Capitalizing on the setting and boasting "good schools, good churches and good society," the Highland Park Building Company transformed the scenic village into one of the most desirable communities on Chicago's North Shore, attracting socially prominent residents who built gracious lakefront estates and quiet country homes along its bluffs and shady lanes. Historic photographs illustrate the transformation from forest and farmland to a fashionable residential community and capture the social, civic, and business accomplishments of Highland Park's early citizens. The city's early progress and prosperity are celebrated in this book.

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Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 270 pages
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Author : Diana Elizabeth Kendall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742545564
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Members Only written by Diana Elizabeth Kendall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall's study of the upper classes, whic...

Author : Howard Barnstone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of John F. Staub written by Howard Barnstone and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 320 pages
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