New towns for old :

Nolen, John, 1869-1937.

New towns for old : achievements in civic improvement in some American small towns and neighborhoods / by John Nolen ; new introduction by Charles D. Warren. - Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, in association with Library of American Landscape History, Amherst, 2005. - [cxv], 228 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. - American Society of Landscape Architects centennial reprint series . - Centennial reprint series. .

Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Marshall Jones Company, 1927.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Planning the small community -- Town development -- Reshaping an industrial town -- An industrial city built to order -- A village for factory workers -- An old seacoast town -- A war emergency project -- A high-class residential suburb -- A wholesale migration from cities in prospect -- New communities planned to meet new conditions -- Appendices. A. List of the more important city planning reports of towns and small cities -- B. Brief list of the most useful and available books on town city planning.

1558494804 (cloth : alk. paper)

2005000058


City planning.
Civic improvement.
New towns--United States.
Cities and towns--Designs and plans.

NA9105 / .N6 2005
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