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Author Luccarelli, Mark, author

Title The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space : Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682-1865.

Publication Info. Winwick, Cambridgeshire : The White Horse Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages)
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Contents Front cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction ; Philadelphia: green urbanism and the Atlantic world; The Atlantic World; Town Planning and Civic Identity; Cityscape as a Picturesque Object of the Merchants' Republic; The End of the Merchants' Republic; American War for Independence/Revolution; The Development of the Public Sphere; Overcoming Political Strife: Territorial Expansion and Public Sphere Contraction; Representing Philadelphia in 1800: A Post-Republican Picturesque; Present and Future; The Two Pasts (Conceptual and Lived Spaces); Eclipse of Urbanism.
Washington: territoryTerritory and Space; A Space in-between (1): The Pastoral Farm; A Space in-between (2): The Agrarian Republic; Breakdown; Vastitas; The Hudson valley: landscape; Regional History; From Land to Space ; The Landscape Turn; Landscape as Environmental Orientation and Political Inclination; English Picturesque; American Landscape View Books; Down River; Beauty and the Beast; Dwelling on the River; The Civic River; The Erie Canal: Abstract Space and Developmentalism; The Transcendentalist Turn: 'Nature' Idealised; Maine: the woods; The 'Frontier' as American Space.
'Nature' and the FrontierThoreau and Ecocriticism ; Thoreau's Spatial Turn; Civic Lament ; The Maine Woods; 'Pure Nature'; Prognosis: From Republic to Ferity; New York: the emergence of green space; The City of the People; The Limits of Democratic Politics in Nineteenth-Century New York; Olmsted and the Three Modernities; Aesthetic Beginnings: The Park as a Work of Art; Green Space and the Problem of Urbanism; Green Space: Coda 1 (Memory); Green Space: Coda 2 (Imagination); Green Space: Coda 3 (Invention); Ripeness and Decline ; Conclusion: the reinvention of green space?; Bibliography.
Note Back cover.
Summary Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Human geography -- United States.
HISTORY / United States / General
Human geography
United States
Other Form: Print version: Luccarelli, Mark. Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space : Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682-1865. Winwick, Cambridgeshire : The White Horse Press, ©2016 9781912186013
ISBN 9781912186013
1912186012
9781874267942
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