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Course Texts
In the Bookstore:
- Thomas Bender, Toward an Urban Vision.
- Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise.
- Patrick Malone, ed., Green Engineering: Parks and Promenades in the Industrial Community.
[In Press--Special Theme Issue of IA (Industrial Archaeology)].
- Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People (Recommended).
- Clarence Stein, Toward New Towns for America.
- Cynthia Zaitzevsky, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System.
CLASS SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNMENTS
* On Reserve
1. Introduction
2. European Precedents and Colonial Greenspaces
- *Norman Newton, Design on the Land, chaps, XII, XVI, XVIII
- *John Reps, The Making of Urban America, pp. 19-24, 29-40, 157-174,185-192
- Thomas Bender, Toward an Urban Vision, chaps. 1 and 2
Suggested:
- Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in the Wilderness
- Paul Zucker, Town and Square: From the Agora to the Village Green
3. Urban Visions, Early Environmental Attitudes, and Rural Cemeteries
(Guest: Professor Barton St. Armand)
- *David Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape, pp. 1-56
- *Galen Cranz, The Politics of Park Design, pp. 1-32
- *Blanche Linden-Ward, Silent City on a Hill, pp. 1-13
Suggested:
- *Newton, Design on the Land
- Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind
- David Schuyler, Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852
- Kenneth Jackson and Camilo Vergara, Silent Cities
Optional Trip to Lowell with US101
Fieldwork Seminar on Sunday, September 27
Participants should read chaps. 3-6 in Bender, Toward an Urban Vision,
and Malone and Parrott article in Patrick Malone, ed., Green Engineering.
Charles Parrott, AIA, Lowell National Historical Park, will help lead the tour.
4. Industrial Communities and the Rise of the Parks Movement
(Guest: Dr. Richard Greenwood, R. I. Hist. Pres. and Heritage Commission)
- Introduction, Articles by Richard Greenwood and by Patrick Malone and Charles Parrott,
in Patrick Malone, ed., Green Engineering
- Margaret Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise, part I
- Bender, Toward a New Urban Vision, chaps. 3-6
Suggested:
- *Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape
- John Garner, ed., The Company Town
5. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Design of Central Park
- *Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People, chaps. 1-12
Suggested:
- Lee Hall, Olmsted's America: An "Unpractical" Man and His Vision of Civilization.
(No Class On Oct 15. Project Proposals Due Oct. 14)
6. Olmsted and his Legacy: Boston's Emerald Necklace and Other Urban or Metropolitan Park Systems
(Guest: Mark Herlihy, Ph. D. Candidate in American Civilization)
- Bender, Toward an Urban Vision, chap. 7
- Cynthia Zaitzevsky, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System, pp. 3-123
- *Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape, ch. 6
Suggested:
- Mona Domosh, Invented Cities
- Irving Fisher, Frederick Law Olmsted and the City Planing Movement in the US
7. Boston Tour (Sunday Oct. 25) -- Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Emerald Necklace
- Zaitzevsky, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System, pp. 127-212
Suggested:
- *Linden-Ward, Silent City on a Hill
- Walter Muir Whitehill, A Topographical History of Boston
8. The City Beautiful Movement, Model Company Towns, and Garden Cities
- *William H. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement, chap. 6.
- Article by Arnold Alanen and Lyn Bjorkman in Malone, ed., Green Engineering
- Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise, chaps. 6, 8
- C.S. Stein, Toward New Towns for America, Intro and chaps. 1, 2, 8, 9
Suggested:
- *Newton, Design on the Land
- Richard Candee, Atlantic Heights
- Garner, The Model Company Town
- Ernest Morrison, J. Horace McFarland: A Thorn for Beauty
9. Parkways, Greenways, Rail Corridors, and Automobiles
- *Charles E. Little, Greenways for America, chaps. 1-2
- *John R. Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor, chap. 8
- *"The Park at Post Office Square, Boston, MA," in Jay Farbstein and Richard Wener, Rebuilding Communities: Re-Creating Urban Excellence, Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence in the Urban Environment, 1993.
Suggested:
- Robert Caro, The Power Broker
- Jan Cigliano and Sarah Bradford Landau, ed. The Grand American Avenue: 1850-1920
- John Nolen and Henry V. Hubbard, Parkways and Land Values
- George Johnson, A Greener Path - Greenspace and Greenways for Rhode Island's Future, State Guide Plan Element 155, Division of Planning, Rhode Island Department of Administration, Nov. 1994.
10. Roger Williams Park, Providence
(Guest: Fred Holman)
- *David Marshall, The Jewel of Providence: An Illustrated History of Roger Williams Park 1871-1961.
- *Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America: 1820-1920, chap. 16
11. The Changing Uses of Parks and Conclusion
- *Rosenzweig and Blackmar, The Park and the People, chaps. 14-18
- *"Harlem Meer Restoration, New York, NY," in Jay Farbstein and Richard Wener, Building Coalitions for Urban Excellence, Rudy Bruner Award for Excellence in the Urban Environment, 1995.
- *Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, chap. 5
Suggested:
- *Cranz, The Politics of Park Design
- William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Places
- Whitney Seymour, Jr., ed., Small Urban Spaces
- William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
- Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver, Planning the Twentieth-Century American City.
- Tony Hiss, The Experience of Place
- Christian Zapatka, The American Landscape
12. Presentation of Project Reports
PROJECTS/PAPERS DUE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8
13. Presentation of Project Reports
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