John Nolen and Mariemont

Building a New Town in Ohio
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6619-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Reihe: Creating the North American Landscape

Winner of the Ohioana Library Association Award

To city planners, landscape architects, and historians, John Nolen is as important a figure in design and planning as was Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, or Lewis Mumford. Scholars, however, have only recently begun to explore the extensive Nolen archives. Relying on rarely published materials from these archives and other sources, John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio details the planning and initial development of the community of Mariemont, outside Cincinnati. Hired by philanthropist Mary Emery, Nolen worked to transform farmland into a community of mixed-income housing complete with commercial space, playgrounds, and a village green.

This is the first book to examine the planning and building of Mariemont and one of the few books to focus on the process of American town planning in the early twentieth century. Regarded in the 1920s as an exemplar of planned communities, Mariemont remains one of America's most livable suburbs and has drawn great interest from the New Urbanism movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, Millard F

Rogers Jr., Millard F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. New Town, New Concept
Chapter 2. Nolen's Town Plan Unfolds
Chapter 3. This Is to Be a Model Town
Chapter 4. Work Begins
Chapter 5. Architects and Buildings
Chapter 6. Year of Progress
Chapter 7. The Curtain Drops
Chapter 8. Emery, Nolen, and Livingood
Chapter 9. Was Mariemont the National Exemplar?
Appendix. Mariemont Site Landowners and Acreage in 1924
Notes
Bibliography
Photograph Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rogers Jr., Millard F.
Millard F. Rogers, Jr. is director emeritus of the Cincinnati Art Museum.