Eden by Design
The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region
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Publication
2000-06-07 - University of California Press
Language
English
Word Count
80,750 words, Guess
Page Count
323 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7710921M
- ISBN-139780520224155
- ISBN-100520224159
- OCLC Control Number42290854
- Library of Congress Control Number99045101
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1762281
- Goodreads344847
Classifications
- LCCHT394.L67 E34 2000
Description
"In 1930 the Olmosted Brothers and Bartholomew and Associates submitted a report, "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches in the Los Angeles Region," to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The plan is a model of ambitious, intelligent, sensitive planning, but after a flurry of enthusiasm in the newspapers, it dropped from sight and no action was taken on its proposals. In this book Greg Hise and William Deverell examine the reasons it was called for, analyze why it failed, and open a discussion about the future of urban public space. In addition to their introduction and a facsimile reproduction of the report, Eden by Design includes a dialogue between Hise, Deverell, and widely admired landscape architect Laurie Olin that illuminates the significance of the Olmsted-Bartholomew report and places it in the history of American landscape planning. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
ON MARCH 16, 1930, the Los Angeles Examiner and Los Angeles Times alerted readers to a "gigantic county park and beach plan" that the Chamber of Commerce had unveiled the previ evening.
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