Eden by Design - The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Regional Plan for the Los Angeles Region

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List of contents

Preface to a Master Plan 

Private Power, Public Space 

Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region
A Report submitted to the Citizens' Committee on Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches, 
by Olmsted Brothers and Bartholomew and Associates, Consultants

The Power of Diction 
An Interview with Laurie Olin by Greg Hise and William Deverell

Index 

About the author

Greg Hise is Associate Professor of Urban History and Planning at the University of Southern California and author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997) and co-editor of Rethinking Los Angeles (1996). William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (California, 1994), coeditor of California Progressivism Revisited (California, 1994), and coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (California, 2001).

Summary

In 1930, the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region", to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. This book examines the reasons the report was called for.

Product details

• Authors: William Deverell, William F. Deverell, Greg Hise, Greg (EDT)/ Deverell Hise, Hise Greg, Hise/Deverell
• Assisted by: William F. Deverell (Editor), Greg Hise (Editor), Laurie Olin (Editor), Laurie Olin (Afterword), Olin Laurie (Afterword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2000
• EAN: 9780520224155
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22415-5
• No. of pages: 323
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; California, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, History of the Americas, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects