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Melodramatic Landscapes: Urban Parks in the Nineteenth Century
Heath Schenker
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Hardcover. During the 19th century, large, naturalistic urban parks began to appear in cities around the world. Focusing on iconic parks in Paris, New York, and Mexico City, this book explores the cultural and social meanings embedded in these elaborate stage sets. It also showcases some of the features of these parks. Num Pages: 232 pages, 75 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
During the nineteenth century, large, naturalistic urban parks began to appear in cities around the world. These parks, as ""Melodramatic Landscapes"" engagingly demonstrates, offered the opportunity for visitors to assert their social status in performances suited to the theatrical age in which they flourished. How and why did prototypical park landscapes - characterized by groves of trees, expanses of mowed meadow, man-made lakes artfully designed to emulate their natural counterparts, and meandering paths - become the norm in the midst of modernizing industrial cities? Focusing on iconic parks in Paris, New York, and Mexico City, Heath Schenker explores the cultural ... Read more
During the nineteenth century, large, naturalistic urban parks began to appear in cities around the world. These parks, as ""Melodramatic Landscapes"" engagingly demonstrates, offered the opportunity for visitors to assert their social status in performances suited to the theatrical age in which they flourished. How and why did prototypical park landscapes - characterized by groves of trees, expanses of mowed meadow, man-made lakes artfully designed to emulate their natural counterparts, and meandering paths - become the norm in the midst of modernizing industrial cities? Focusing on iconic parks in Paris, New York, and Mexico City, Heath Schenker explores the cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928425
SKU
V9780813928425
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About Heath Schenker
Heath Schenker is Professor in the Department of Environmental Design at the University of California at Davis.
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