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The Garden and the grid

Americans have struggled to marry the ideal city to the pragmatism of the easily subdivisible iron plan. Discusses city planning, urban renewal and new concepts such as pedestrian-scaled urbanism, like colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

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  • "Presents the various ways American city planners have combined business and residential areas with gardens, town squares, beaches and parks. Looks especially at Washington, Williamsburg and New York City."
  • "Americans have struggled to marry the ideal city to the pragmatism of the easily subdivisible iron plan. Discusses city planning, urban renewal and new concepts such as pedestrian-scaled urbanism, like colonial Williamsburg, Virginia."@en
  • "Americans have struggled to marry the ideal city to the pragmatism of the easily subdivisible iron plan. Discusses city planning, urban renewal and new concepts such as pedestrian-scaled urbanism, like colonial Williamsburg, Virginia."
  • "Americans have struggled to marry the concept of the ideal city to the pragmatism of the easily subdivisible urban space. Discusses city planning, urban renewal and new concepts such as pedestrian-scaled urbanism, exemplified in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Examines various solutions to the problem of bringing nature into the city."
  • "Examines various solutions to the problem of bringing nature into the city. Covers the following: Detroit's Renaissance Center; the buildings and monuments of Washington, D.C.; H.H. Richardson's embellishment of North Easton, Mass.; Robert Moses's landscaped highways and public parks; Rockefeller Center; and the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg."@en
  • "Examines various solutions to the problem of bringing nature into the city. Covers the following: Detroit's Renaissance Center; the buildings and monuments of Washington, D.C.; H.H. Richardson's embellishment of North Easton, Mass.; Robert Moses's landscaped highways and public parks; Rockefeller Center; and the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg."
  • "Étude des différentes solutions trouvées par les urbanistes et architectes américains pour intégrer les espaces verts aux quadrillages routiers. Visite de Renaissance Center (Détroit), Washington, D.C., Rockefeller Center et Empire State Plaza (New York), Albany Mall (New York), North Easton (Massachusetts), Concord (New Hampshire), le réseau routier et de parcs de Long Island (Jones Beach State Park), Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia) et Stony Brook (New York). Commentaires du promoteur Charles M. Wisner et des architectes Duncan S. McGowan, Max Bond et Léon Krier."
  • ""... Great cities are laid out by surveyors measuring out divisible grids to suit the visions of real estate entrepreneurs, designers of space or social policy. The effort to renew the aged, replace the obsolete or provide for growth, to conncect business with residential centers and cities with nature, has provided a range of solutions that range from Colonial reconstruction to urban renewal, from the sublime to the disastrous."--Container."@en
  • "Étude des différentes solutions trouvées par les urbanistes et architectes américains pour intégrer les espaces verts aux quadrillages routiers. Visite de Renaissance Center (Détroit), Washington, D.C., Rockefeller Center et Empire State Plaza (New York), Albany Mall (New York), North Easton (Massachusetts), Concord (New Hampshire), le réseau routier et de parcs de Long Island (Jones Beach State Park), Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia) et Stony Brook (New York). Commentaires du promoteur Charles M. Wisner et des architectes Duncan S. McGowan, Max Bond et Leon Krier."

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