Carr

Public Nature Carr

Description for Sales People: This unusually valuable collection considers the history of public parks as repositories and reflections of cultural values. It features essays from an international roster of contributors, including scholars, practitioners, and public-land-management professionals, and has considerable promise as a course-adoption text. It should also be a good book to have on the list in 2016, the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Biographical Note: Ethan Carr, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the author of "Wilderness by Design." Shaun Eyring is Chief of the Division of Resource Planning and Compliance of the Northeast Region for the National Park Service. Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, is coeditor, with Shaun Eyring and Kenny Marotta, of "Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival."Review Quotes: "Public Nature" addresses the developments that have shaped millions of acres of what today we see as some of our most contested and beloved cultural landscapes. The range here of countries, eras, and disciplines is sweeping and represents a much-needed synthesis to understand the broad cultural phenomenon our parks have been.--Laurie Olin, author of "Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes"Review Quotes: "Public Nature" offers a compelling perspective on the complex relationship between nature and society. Through their careful analyses of parks in the U. S. and abroad, the authors convincingly demonstrate that open space and our evolving uses of it reflect our deep cultural need for place, whether wild, managed, or imagined.--Char Miller, Pomona College, author of "Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy"Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword / Jonathan B. Jarvis -- Preface -- 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-Senocak -- 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, 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 -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. Review Quotes: Publisher Marketing: 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. ContributorsTal Alon-Mozes, Israel Institute of Technology * Catherin Bull, University of Melbourne * Theodore Catton, University of Montana * Esther da Costa Meyer, Princeton University * Timothy Davis, U. S. National Park Service * Elizabeth Flint Engle, Western Center for Historic Preservation, Grand Teton National Park * Christine Madrid French, independent scholar * Heidi Hohmann, Iowa State University * John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania * Brian Katen, Virginia Tech * Richard Longstreth, George Washington University * Neil M. Maher, New Jersey Institute of Technology * Catharina Nolin, Stockholm University * Nicole Porter, University of Nottingham * Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Foundation for Landscape Studies * Katherine Solomonson, University of Minnesota * Lucienne Thys- enocak, Koc University, Istanbul" Review Citations:

Choice 12/01/2013 (EAN 9780813933436, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Carr, Ethan Ethan Carr is a landscape architect and is currently working for the National Park Service. He has taught landscape architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Contributor Bio:  Wilson, Richard Guy Richard Guy Wilson is chair and Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.