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Sunnyside Gardens : Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb /
The first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineeringSituated in the borough of Queens, New York, Sunnyside Gardens has been an icon of urbanism and planning since its inception in the 1920s. Not the most beautifully planned community, nor the most elegant,...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- SUNNYSIDE GARDENS CHRONOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION Sunnyside Gardens and the Garden City Idea: A Cityscape for Urban Reform
- PART I PLANNING
- 1 The Garden City and the Garden Suburb in Great Britain
- 2 The Garden Suburb in New York
- 3 Planning and Building Sunnyside Gardens
- 4 Design and Community: Architecture and Landscape as a Social Good
- 5 Building on Success: Radburn and Phipps Garden Apartments
- 6 Foreclosure: The Great Depression and the End of a Dream
- 7 Envisioning the Future City
- PART II PRESERVATION
- 8 Preserving the Historic Garden Suburb in London and New York
- 9 Preserving Sunnyside Gardens
- 10 The Fight for the Historic District
- 11 A Question of Appropriateness: The Aluminaire House Controversy
- CONCLUSION A Second Century for the Garden Suburb
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX