Main entry:

Young, Terence (Terence G.)

Title & Author:

Building San Francisco's parks, 1850-1930 / Terence Young.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004.

Description:

xvi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index.
The American park movement -- San Francisco's Park movement begins -- Romantic Golden Gate Park -- The public reacts to its new park -- Rationalistic Golden Gate Park -- The many small parks of San Francisco.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"In Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930, Terence Young traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860s, Frederick Law Olmstead's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. He also differentiates between two periods in the history of American park building, each defined by a distinctive attitude towards "improving" nature: the romantic approach, which prevailed from the 1860s to the 1880s, emphasized the beauty of nature, while the rationalistic approach, dominant from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw nature as the best setting for uplifting activities such as athletics and education." "Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0801874327 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801874321 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801889813
0801889812

Subject:

Parks California San Francisco History.
Landscape architecture California San Francisco History.
Parks Social aspects California San Francisco History.
Parcs Californie San Francisco Histoire.
Architecture du paysage Californie San Francisco Histoire.
Parcs Aspect social Californie San Francisco Histoire.
Landscape architecture.
Parks.
Parks Social aspects.
Parken.
California San Francisco.

Form/genre:

Correspondence.
History.

Added entries:

Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240791
Call No.: SB482.C22 S268 2004
Status: Available