Public nature : scenery, history, and park design / edited by Ethan Carr, Shaun Eyring, and Richard Guy Wilson.

Other author Carr, Ethan, 1958- editor.
Other author Eyring, Shaun, editor.
Other author Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Descriptionx, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
National parks and reserves--United States. --Design. --History.
Parks--Design and construction. --History.
Recreation areas--Planning.

Contents The influence of anxiety : keeping Europe in the picture in North American landscaping / John Dixon Hunt -- Romanticism and the American landscape / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers -- "Everyone has carriage road on the brain" : designing for vehicles in pre-automotive parks / Timothy Davis -- The hegemony of the car culture in U.S. national parks / Theodore Catton -- Mass-producing nature : municipal parks in Second Empire Paris / Esther da Costa Meyer -- Playing politics at Bear Mountain : Franklin Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and state park design during the New Deal era / Neil M. Maher -- From pariah to paragon : the redesign of Platt National Park, 1933-1940 / Heidi Hohmann -- Urban parks in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century : the nature park and the search for national identity / Catharina Nolin -- Divided spaces, contested pasts : the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park / Lucienne Thys-Şenocak -- Enacting discovery : Itasca State Park and the Mississippi's mythical source / Katherine Solomonson -- Parks apart : African American recreational landscapes in Virginia / Brian Katen -- Conceptualizing, representing, and designing nature : cultural constructions of the Blue Mountains, Australia / Nicole Porter and Catherin Bull -- "If paradise is in the land of Israel, its entrance is at the gates of Beit Shean" : Israeli national parks and the fluidity of national identity / Tal Alon-Mozes -- Protecting artifice amid nature : Camp Santanoni and the Adirondack Forest Preserve / Richard Longstreth -- A grand experiment : the Jackson Lake Lodge / Elizabeth Flint Engle -- The visitor center as monument : recontextualizing Richard Neutra's 1962 Cyclorama Center within the commemorative landscape of the Gettysburg Battlefield / Christine Madrid French.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012034378
ISBN9780813933436 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813933439 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks SB482 .A4 P83 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold