Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
©2013

Description:

x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Jonathan B. Jarvis -- Introduction / Ethan Carr -- Part I: Nature and design in Europe and America. -- The influence of anxiety: keeping Europe in the picture in North American landscaping / John Dixon Hunt -- Romanticism and the American landscape / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers -- Part II: Movement and landscape. -- "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 -- Part III: Political natures. -- 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 -- Part IV: History and identity. -- 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 -- Part V: Monuments in the landscape. -- 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.

Summary:

This diverse new collection of essays, written by scholars, practitioners, and public-land managers, considers the history of public park design, as well as the parks themselves as repositories of cultural values. In exploring the role design has played in these public spaces, the contributors look not only at noticeably planned, often urban, landscapes such as Central Park or Boston's Back Bay Fens but also at parks such as Yosemite with naturally occurring scenic qualities, which require less development. The essays present design as encompassing not simply a park's appearance--its buildings and landscape features--but also its functions, how it delivers a culturally significant experience to visitors. Much park design has been fed into or organized by systems promoting preservation (the National Park Service being only the most obvious example), and many of this book's contributors stress park design's relationship to preservation, as Americans have become aware of a natural heritage they identify with strongly and want to experience. Other essays treat such engaging topics as European influences on early American parks, the peculiar nature of U.S. regional parks, the effect of the automobile on the outdoor recreational experience, and--in an international context--parks and national identity.

ISBN:

9780813933436 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813933439 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

National parks and reserves United States Design History.
Parks Design and construction History.
Recreation areas Planning.
Zones de loisirs Planification.
National parks and reserves Design
Parks Design and construction
Nationalpark
Naturschutzgebiet
Erholungsgebiet
Planung
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Carr, Ethan, 1958- editor.
Eyring, Shaun, editor.
Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283166
Call No.: BIB 221201
Status: Available