Main entry:

Milroy, Elizabeth, 1954- author.

Title & Author:

The grid and the river : Philadelphia's green places, 1682-1876 / Elizabeth Milroy.

Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Description:

xvii, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-404) and index.
The origins of Penn's squares -- Patterns of growth and governance in the centre city -- The liberty lands -- Suburban villas in the Schuylkill Valley -- Nurseries of national virtue : private estates and public culture -- Agriculture, horticulture, and the origins of the American picturesque -- Reviving Penn's plan -- The Fairmount Water Works : picturing civic virtue -- Rural cemeteries, river parks, and the search for rational recreation -- Greening the consolidated city -- The Fairmount Park Commission : park building for preservation and -- Spatial politics and the centennial exhibition -- A work unfinished.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within Penn's city plan and along the Schuylkill informed notions of place from the time of Philadelphia's founding to the formation of the modern Fairmount Park system in the mid-19th century"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780271066769 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271066768 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Parks Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.
City planning Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.
City planning
Parks
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) History.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphie, Penns.) Histoire.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Philadelphia Fairmount Park

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293703
Call No.: BIB 238854
Status: Available