Shaping American Democracy Landscapes and Urban Design /

• Main Author: Roulier, Scott M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Democracy.; Cultural policy.; Urban geography.; Environmental policy.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Environmental Politics.

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners-including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists-not only articulated unique...

Table of Contents:

• 1. American Democracy and Its Spaces: An Introduction
• 2. American Pastoral: Jefferson's Agrarian Republic
• 3. Democracy Gone Wild: Thoreau and the Wilderness Tradition
• 4. Olmsted's Public Parks: Civic-Spirited Design
• 5. Democracy and Individuality: Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacres and the Burbs
• 6. Democratic Ambivalence: Robert Moses and Modernist Urban Planning
• 7. Democracy and Civic Ecology: New Urbanism
• 8. Democratic Designs: A Multipronged Approach
• 9. Conclusion. .