John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner

John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner

R. Bruce Stephenson
$28.00
Publication Date: October 7th, 2021
Publisher:
Library of American Landscape History
ISBN:
9781952620324
Pages:
304

Description

Over the course of his career, Boston-based landscape architect John Nolen (1869-1937) and his firm completed more than 450 projects, including comprehensive plans for 29 cities and 27 new towns. In this insightful biography, R. Bruce Stephenson analyzes Nolen's progressive experiments, illuminating his planning principles and their connections to the European garden city and discussing the potential of Nolen's work as a model of a sustainable vision relevant to American civic culture today.

About the Author

R. BRUCE STEPHENSON is director of the department of Environmental Studies and Sustainable Urbanism at Rollins College, a landscape design consultant, author of Visions of Eden: Environmentalism and Urban Planning in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995, and contributing scholar to the Florida Humanities film series on community, Imagining a New Florida.