Regional Visionaries and Metropolitan Boosters
Subtitle: Decentralization, Regional Planning, and Parkways During the Interwar Years
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781402071041
Subjects: Regional & Area Planning; The Environment; Regional planning; Politics - Current Events; General; United States; Politics/International Relations; Environmental Planning And Management; Highway Engineering; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; New York; USA; Agriculture - General; Environmental Science; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Science / Environmental Science; Case studies; Engineering - Civil; Public Policy - Regional Planning; 20th century; History; Parkways
First sentence: Between 1921 and 1936 planners, landscape architects, business boosters, and automobile and tourism advocates planned for, built, and attempted to institutionalize regional parkways as major recreational and travel arteries for Americans.