Regional Visionaries and Metropolitan Boosters: Decentralization, Regional Planning, and Parkways During the Interwar Years
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1402071043 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Best Book on Parkways EVER!!!! Dalbey writes the best book on parkway development ever. He is a modern day E. Howard. He put's the "green" in green-belts. I recommend this book to everyone interested in regional planning and parkway development.. This book is a historical "hat trick"! Matt Dalbey has truly scored with this book, which unfortunately is in limited supply and is not popularly printed. It is a perfect complement to Anne Whisnant's book "super-scenic motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History."Matt Dalbey and Anne Whisnant both cover an exceptional period of American history, the plans for mountain parkways as part of the New Deal. We are fortunate
In an effort to flesh out the competing theories and the development of the regional parkway, I discuss the history of the Skyline Drive and the proposed Green Mountain Parkway. This view found literal and philosophical support with Thomas Adams and the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. " Matthew Dalbey Jackson, Mississippi March 2002 Chapter 1 Decentralization and Regional Planning Practical and Ideological Problems 1.. In addition to supplementing the planning history and theory literature, I try to inform on issues important to the contemporary planning profession. The regional visionaries viewed their regional work as a social reform effort. This book is an examination of two conflicting regional planning ideologies and the impact of this conflict on the development of two regional parkways. I hypothesize that regional parkways of the 1920s and 1930s emerged out of these two visions of regional planning - regionalism and metropolitanism. The metropolitan viewpoint, while less definable, grew out of the market-oriented economic boosterism efforts associated with early twentieth century planning. The metropolitanists wanted to tweak the market so