Main entry:

Nolen, John, 1869-1937.

Title & Author:

New towns for old : achievements in civic improvement in some American small towns and neighborhoods / by John Nolen ; new introduction by Charles D. Warren.

Publication:

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History, Amherst, 2005.

Description:

[cxv], 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Series:

American Society of Landscape Architects centennial reprint series

Notes:
Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Marshall Jones Company, 1927.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Planning the small community -- Town development -- Reshaping an industrial town -- An industrial city built to order -- A village for factory workers -- An old seacoast town -- A war emergency project -- A high-class residential suburb -- A wholesale migration from cities in prospect -- New communities planned to meet new conditions -- Appendices. A. List of the more important city planning reports of towns and small cities -- B. Brief list of the most useful and available books on town city planning.

Summary:

"Nolen's final book, New Towns for Old (1927), long out of print and increasingly rare, is still of great interest to planners and urban historians. The well-illustrated study contains an overview of planning as Nolen defined it and a concise history of town planning. Individual chapters examine Mariemont and several other communities planned by Nolen, including East Walpole (Mass.), Kingsport (Tenn.), Cohasett (Mass.), and Kistler (Pa.), as well as the suburbs of Union Park Gardens (Wilmington, Del.) and Myers Park (Charlotte, N.C.). Several other important sites where Nolen worked, such as Venice (Fla.), are also discussed."
"The new edition contains additional plans and illustrations, an index, Nolen's project list, and a new introductory essay by Charles D. Warren."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1558494804 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781558494800 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning.
Civic improvement.
New towns United States.
Cities and towns Designs and plans.
Villes Aménagement et assainissement.
Villes nouvelles États-Unis.
Villes Dessins et plans.
civic improvement.
Cities and towns.
New towns.
Kleinstadt
Stadtplanung
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.

Added entries:

Warren, Charles D. (Charles Davock), 1954-
Centennial reprint series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255393
Call No.: BIB 185555
Status: Available