Melodramatic Landscapes: Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
Melodramatic Landscapes: Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
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Schenker, Heath. Melodramatic Landscapes: Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
University of Virginia Press
2009
Book ID: 82497
Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, including original plans and drawings, descriptions in guidebooks, newspaper articles, and even representations in novels, Schenker reveals how civic leaders adapted the park ideal to serve their particular political, social, and economic agendas.
232 pp., b7w illus, Cl.
