This is an account of the planning of the city of Canberra, Australia, describing how the competition to design the city was run, amid boycotts and controversy. It tells of the flamboyant King O'Malley, who oversaw events as Minister for Home Affairs, and how the winning entrant, Walter Burley Griffin, implemented his design. The designs and related documentary material show the planning theory and practice which was used at a time when modern urban planning was in its infancy. A cast of urban designers is introduced - men such as Arthur Comey, Ernest Gimson, Charles Heath and Emil T. Mische, whose work has been largely forgotten, ignored or inadequately understood.

Canberra 1912: Plans and Planners of the Australian Capital Competition

Reps, John W.

Melbourne University Press

The 15x11.5" format accommodates 160 color and 12 b&amp;w illustrations, many of them decidedly horizontal, and accompanying text laid out in two wide (5.5") columns. Before photography, Washington, DC was the subject of numerous engravings, aquatints, and lithographs which were published separately as well as in newspapers and magazines, souvenir booklets, and guidebooks and brochures. A selection of these illustrations depicting buildings or districts, views from public structures, and bird's-eye views is presented along with descriptions of Washington from contemporary published works by journalists, architects, travelers, politicians, and others. Nine chapters review successive periods of growth and identify events that shaped the city's character. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Washington on View: The Nation's Capital Since 1790

Science & Math

Univ of North Carolina Pr

REPS, J. W.: TOWN PLANNING IN FRONTIER AMERICA. COLUMBIA, MO, 1980, vii 328 p. figuras.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Town Planning in Frontier America

History

Americas

Univ of Missouri Pr

Americans imagine the Early West as a vast expanse of almost empty land populated only by farmers, ranchers, cattle, and horses. Now a leading scholar challenges this stereotype with his concise examination of early city planning and urban development in the region. Extending and elaborating on studies by Carl Bridenbaugh and Richard Wade of the Atlantic Seaboard and the Ohio Valley, John Reps demonstrates that throughout the Trans-Mississippi West cities and towns, not farms and ranches, formed the vanguard of frontier settlement. Urban communities thus stimulated rather than followed the opening of the West to agriculture. These cities did not grow randomly, for their founders established patterns of streets, lots, and public sites to guide expansion as population increased. Reps supports his thesis with 100 illustrations-plans, maps, surveys, and views-showing the original designs of every major Western city and of dozens of smaller places. Based on Reps's massive Cities of the American West (winner of the Beveridge Prize in 1980), this succinct account includes extensive notes and references that will be useful to readers who wish to pursue his penetrating critique.

The Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning in the American West before 1890

University of Missouri

Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning in the American West Before 1890

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A catalog of lithographs of American and Canadian cities

Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925

Sociology

Reps (city and regional planning, emeritus, Cornell) has done another handsome, scholarly, and very appealing book in the style of his Views and viewmakers of urban America. He discusses some hundred bird's-eye views which are presented in good color plates. The views document the growth from fort and frontier town to St. Louis' emergence as a major commercial center. 12.5x10

Saint Louis Illustrated: Nineteenth-Century Engravings and Lithographs of a Mississippi River Metropolis

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

"The mighty Mississippi" has inspired writers and artists for centuries. During the nineteenth century, Mississippi River towns attracted artists who traveled throughout the United States producing detailed drawings of cities and towns, which were then printed and sold as lithographs or used as wood engravings to illustrate books and magazines. Depicting each street and building, as well as the natural setting and geographic features of the surrounding areas, these elaborate bird's-eye views were enormously popular. In Cities of the Mississippi, John W. Reps brings together hundreds of spctacular historical views of Mississippi River towns alongside contemporary aerial photographs and an engaging text. The result is a remarkable voyage through the nineteenth century and a powerful visual record of American urban development.
From The Balize, a village for ship pilots near the mouth of the Mississippi, to St. Cloud, Minnesota, at its source, readers will experience Mississippi River towns ranging from the major metropolises of New Orleans, St. Louis, and Minneapolis to the small towns of Cairo, Kaskaskia, and Prairie du Chien. Reps introduces the artists, printers, and publishers who recorded the development of the cities and offers descriptions of the cities by residents, journalists, and travelers in their own words. Spectacular modern aerial photographs of twenty-three of the towns dramatically illustrate changes to the urban scene and demonstrate the lasting influence of the initial city patterns on subsequent growth.
Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of prints, more than 140 in color, Cities of the Mississippi is a remarkable depiction of the distinctive character of the cities created by one of America's great waterways and a magnificent graphic record of urban development in the nineteenth-century Midwest.

Cities of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development (Volume 1)

Panoramas of Promise: Pacific Northwest Cities and Towns on Nineteenth-Century Lithographs

Graphic Design

Washington State Univ Pr

Panoramas of Promise: 1984

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