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Title:
Public nature : scenery, history, and park design / edited by Ethan Carr, Shaun Eyring, and Richard Guy Wilson.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject:
National parks and reserves--United States--History.--History.
Parks--History.--History.
Recreation areas--Planning.
Other Authors:
Carr, Ethan, 1958- editor of compilation.
Eyring, Shaun, editor of compilation.
Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940- editor of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The influence of anxiety : keeping Europe in the picture in North American landscaping -- Romanticism and the American landscape -- "Everyone has carriage road on the brain" : designing for vehicles in pre-automotive parks -- The hegemony of the car culture in U.S. national parks -- Mass-producing nature : municipal parks in Second Empire Paris -- Playing politics at Bear Mountain : Franklin Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and state park design during the New Deal era -- From pariah to paragon : the redesign of Platt National Park, 1933-1940 -- Urban parks in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century : the nature park and the search for national identity -- Divided spaces, contested pasts : the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park -- Enacting discovery : Itasca State Park and the Mississippi's mythical source -- Parks apart : African American recreational landscapes in Virginia -- Conceptualizing, representing, and designing nature : cultural constructions of the Blue Mountains, Australia -- "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 -- Protecting artifice amid nature : Camp Santanoni and the Adirondack Forest Preserve -- A grand experiment : the Jackson Lake Lodge -- The visitor center as monument : recontextualizing Richard Neutra's 1962 Cyclorama Center within the commemorative landscape of the Gettysburg Battlefield .
ISBN:
0813933439 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813933436 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2012034378
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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