John Nolen and Mariemont
Subtitle: Building a New Town in Ohio (Creating the North American Landscape)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801866197
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Individual architects; Local history; Social history; Planning; Landscape; Urban Architecture; General; Ohio; Architecture; Mariemont; Architectural Firms; U.S. Architecture - General; Architecture / Landscape; 1869-1937; City planning; History; Mariemont (Ohio); Nolen, John,
First sentence: A present-day traveler's first encounter with the village of Mariemont, just ten miles east of Cincinnati along the spine of U.S. Route 50, might suggest a quaint town in the Cotswolds region of England.
Description: "To city planners, landscape architects, and historians, John Nolen is as important a figure in design and planning as was Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, or Lewis Mumford. Scholars, however, have only recently begun to explore the extensive Nolen archives. Relying on rarely published materials from these archives and other sources, John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio details the planning and initial development of the community of Mariemont, outside Cincinnati.

Hired by philanthropist Mary Emery, Nolen worked to transform farmland into a community of mixed-income housing complete with commercial space, playgrounds, and a village green.".

"This is the first book to examine the planning and building of Mariemont and one of the few books to focus on the process of American town planning in the early twentieth century. Regarded in the 1920s as an exemplar of planned communties, Mariemont remains one of America's most livable suburbs and has drawn great interest from the New Urbanism movement."--BOOK JACKET.