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Informationen zum Autor Florida historian, art historian and biographer, Joan Mickelson lives in Broward County, Florida. Klappentext Joseph W. Young, Jr., was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. From practically nothing in 1920 he created Hollywood By-the-Sea with an elegant Beaux Arts plan of circles and lakes, calling it a "City Beautiful," an ideal first propounded by Daniel Burnham of Chicago. Young had a rare talent for publicity and a knack for making and spending millions--supported by an immense personal charm that is still remembered decades after his death. This first full biography of Young covers his start as city builder in turn-of-the-century California where new cities blossomed and were ballyhooed, his move to Indianapolis, home of Carl Fisher who developed Miami Beach, his creation of Hollywood and Port Everglades, and his move to his Adirondack resort, ending with his dreams to expand Hollywood, fulfilled after his early death. Zusammenfassung "Joseph Young was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. From palmetto! bare ground and water in 1920 he created Hollywood By-the-Sea with an elegant Beaux Arts plan of circles and lakes! calling his creation a "City Beautiful!" an ideal first propounded by Daniel Burnham of Chicago"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction¿1.¿From Gold Rush to Newsboy: Childhood of an Entrepreneur, Seattle, Yukon, 1882-1900¿2.¿California's Southland: The Sourcebook for a Future Florida City, Long Beach, California, 1900-1916¿3.¿Young's First Forays into Turning Land into Homesites with Convenient Transportation, 1904-1916¿4.¿First Disaster, 1914, and Arizona Interim, 1915-1917¿5.¿Indianapolis: Renewed Success, Speedway, and Circles, 1918-1920¿6.¿Young's Dream City Takes Form, 1919-1920¿7.¿City Beautiful: Hollywood By-the-Sea, 1920-1921¿8.¿Hollywood By-the-Sea: Nationwide Advertising Blitz Begins, 1922¿9.¿The City Beautiful Blossoms Under Young: A Man "possessing extraordinary energies, generous and modest to a degree," 192310.¿The City Expands: Cash and People Flood In, 192411.¿Young's Vision Expands Nationally and Internationally, 192512.¿A Hotel to Rival Flagler's and an International Port, 192613.¿"A life of ease before us ... then overnight everything wiped out": The Infamous Hurricane, 192614.¿Desperate Aftermath, 1927-192915.¿The Adirondacks: Hollywood in the Hills, Another Lasting Legacy, 1928-193316. Turning the Tables: The Floridian Buys and Sells in New York City, 1930-193317.¿"A builder whose work is play": Young's Four-Day July 4th Party, 193318.¿Last Days, Final Acts, 1933-193419.¿The Company Dies with J. W. Young; the City Continues, 1934-193620.¿Young's LegacyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex...
