Suburban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suburban Landscapes write by Paul H. Mattingly. This book was released on 2003-04-01. Suburban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History Most Americans today live in the suburbs. Yet suburban voices remain largely unheard in sociological and cultural studies of these same communities. In Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community, Paul Mattingly provides a new model for understanding suburban development through his narrative history of Leonia, New Jersey, an early commuter suburb of New York City. Although Leonia is a relatively small suburb, a study of this kind has national significance because most of America's suburbs began as rural communities, with histories that predated the arrival of commuters and real estate developers. Examining the dynamics of community cultural formation, Mattingly contests the prevailing urban and suburban dichotomy. In doing so, he offers a respite from journalistic cliches and scholarly bias about the American suburb, providing instead an insightful, nuanced look at the integrative history of a region. Mattingly examines Leonia's politics and culture through three eras of growth and change (1859-94, 1894-1920, and 1920-60). A major part of Leonia's history, Mattingly reveals, was its role as an attractive community for artists and writers, many contributors to national magazines, who created a 'suburban' aesthetic. The work done by generations of Leonias' artists provides an important vantage and a wonderful set of tools for exploring evolving notions of suburban culture and landscape, which have broad implications and applications. Oral histories, census records, and the extensive work of Leonia's many artists and writers come together to trace not only the community's socially diverse history, but to show how residents viewed the growth and transformation of Leonia as well.
Trees for Urban and Suburban Landscapes
Trees for Urban and Suburban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trees for Urban and Suburban Landscapes write by Edward F. Gilman. This book was released on 1997. Trees for Urban and Suburban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides guidelines for developing and maintaining sound architectural trunk and branch structure. It is written around the drawings and photographs to serve as the the main teaching tool for students to learn by acutally pruning. The concepts presented in the drawings will provide enough information to allow you to begin pruning trees quickly, correctly and more efficiently. A must for anyone who works with trees and shrubs.
Suburban Landscapes
Suburban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suburban Landscapes write by Paul H. Mattingly. This book was released on 2001-12-20. Suburban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this work, Paul Mattingly provides a model for understanding suburban development through his narrative history of Leonia, New Jersey, an early commuter suburb of New York City.
Suburban Landscapes
Suburban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suburban Landscapes write by Paul H. Mattingly. This book was released on 2001-12-20. Suburban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this work, Paul Mattingly provides a model for understanding suburban development through his narrative history of Leonia, New Jersey, an early commuter suburb of New York City.
Pastoral Capitalism
Pastoral Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pastoral Capitalism write by Louise A. Mozingo. This book was released on 2016-05-27. Pastoral Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How business appropriated the pastoral landscape, as seen in the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park. By the end of the twentieth century, America's suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the context of the modern capitalist enterprise. These new suburban corporate landscapes emerged from a historical moment when corporations reconceived their management structures, the city decentralized and dispersed into low-density, auto-dependent peripheries, and the pastoral—in the form of leafy residential suburbs—triumphed as an American ideal. Greenness, writes Mozingo, was associated with goodness, and pastoral capitalism appropriated the suburb's aesthetics and moral code. Like the lawn-proud suburban homeowner, corporations understood a pastoral landscape's capacity to communicate identity, status, and right-mindedness. Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes—the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park—and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere & Company, and Microsoft. She also considers the globalization of pastoral capitalism in Europe and the developing world including Singapore, India, and China. Mozingo argues that, even as it is proliferating, pastoral capitalism needs redesign, as do many of our metropolitan forms, for pressing social, cultural, political, and environmental reasons. Future transformations are impossible, however, unless we understand the past. Pastoral Capitalism offers an indispensible chapter in urban history, examining not only the design of corporate landscapes but also the economic, social, and cultural models that determined their form.
