The Country Club District Of Kansas City

Author : LaDene Morton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162585448X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country Club District of Kansas City written by LaDene Morton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE GRAND EXPERIMENTS OF AMERICAN URBAN PLANNING lies tucked within the heart of Kansas City. J.C. Nichols prized the Country Club District as his life's work, and the scope of his vision required fifty years of careful development. Begun in 1905 and extending over a swath of six thousand acres, the project attracted national attention to a city still forging its identity. While the district is home to many of Kansas City's most exclusive residential areas and commercial properties, its boundaries remain unmarked and its story largely unknown. Follow LaDene Morton along the well-appointed boulevards of this model community's rich legacy.

Author : William S. Worley
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826273092
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City written by William S. Worley and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and reared on the outskirts of Kansas City in Olathe, Kansas, Jesse Clyde Nichols (1880-1950) was a creative genius in land development. He grew up witnessing the cycles of development and decline characteristics of Kansas City and other American cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These early memories contributed to his interest in real estate and led him to pursue his goal of neighborhoods in Kansas City, an idea unfamiliar to that city and a rarity across the United States. J.C. Nichols was one of the first developers in the country to lure buyers with a combination of such attractions as paved streets, sidewalks, landscaped areas, and access to water and sewers. He also initiated restrictive covenants and to control the use of structures built in and around his neighborhoods. In addition, Nichols was involved in the placement of services such as schools, churches, and recreation and shopping areas, all of which were essential to the success of his developments. In 1923, Nichols and his company developed the Country Club Plaza, the first of many regional shopping centers built in anticipation of the increased use of automobiles. Known throughout the United States, the Plaza is a lasting tribute to the creativity of J.C. Nichols and his legacy to the United States. With single-mindedness of purpose and unwavering devotion to achievement, J.C. Nichols left an indelible imprint on the Kansas City metropolitan area, and thereby influenced the design and development of major residential and commercial areas throughout the United States as well. Based on extensive research, J.C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City is a valuable study of one of the most influential entrepreneurs in American land development.

Author : LaDene Morton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626199140
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country Club District of Kansas City written by LaDene Morton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE GRAND EXPERIMENTS OF AMERICAN URBAN PLANNING lies tucked within the heart of Kansas City. J.C. Nichols prized the Country Club District as his life's work, and the scope of his vision required fifty years of careful development. Begun in 1905 and extending over a swath of six thousand acres, the project attracted national attention to a city still forging its identity. While the district is home to many of Kansas City's most exclusive residential areas and commercial properties, its boundaries remain unmarked and its story largely unknown. Follow LaDene Morton along the well-appointed boulevards of this model community's rich legacy.

Author : Diane Mutti Burke
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700627065
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide-Open Town written by Diane Mutti Burke and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city’s complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change—for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the myriad ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation. During the interwar period, political boss Tom Pendergast reigned, and Kansas City was said to be “wide open.” Prohibition was rarely enforced, the mob was ascendant, and urban vice was rampant. But in a community divided by the hard lines of race and class, this “openness” also allowed many of the city’s residents to challenge conventional social boundaries—and it is this intersection and disruption of cultural norms that interests the authors of Wide-Open Town. Writing from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the contributors take up topics ranging from the 1928 Republican National Convention to organizing the garment industry, from the stockyards to health care, drag shows, Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, jazz. Their essays bring to light the diverse histories of the city—among, for instance, Mexican immigrants, African Americans, the working class, and the LGBT community before the advent of “LGBT.” Wide-Open Town captures the defining moments of a society rocked by World War I, the mass migration of people of color into cities, the entrance of women into the labor force and politics, Prohibition, economic collapse, and a revolution in social mores. Revealing how these changes influenced Kansas City—and how the city responded—this volume helps us understand nothing less than how citizens of the age adapted to the rise of modern America.

Author : J. C. Nichols Companies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Hills Comprising with Mission Hills the Estate Section of Country Club District written by J. C. Nichols Companies and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotional sheet for Indian Hills, a planned community of the Country Club District of Kansas City, Missouri. The community included golf courses, country clubs, 'protective restrictions', and landscape planning "which will ultimately become the most impressive home vista in America". Includes plat map with numbered lots in 13 sections

Author : United States. National Resources Committee. Urbanism Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Government ... Supplementary Report of the Urbanism Committee to the National Resources Committee written by United States. National Resources Committee. Urbanism Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Resources Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning and Land Policies written by United States. National Resources Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Supplementary Report of the Urbanism Committee to the National Resources Committee: Urban planning and land policies written by United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On August 9, 1937, the National Resources Committee submitted to the President its report on 'Our cities--their role in the national economy.' In the course of preparing this report a large volume of basic data and information was collected which could not then be included. The publication of these supplementary volumes has been undertaken to make such data and information available."--Vol. l, p. iii.

Author : United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supplementary Report of the Urbanism Committee to the National Resources Committee written by United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cydney Millstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780926494541
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Houses of Missouri, 1870-1940 written by Cydney Millstein and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a detailed tour behind the facades of 45 Missouri houses, with nearly 300 archival photographs, drawings, and original floor plans.