Awards

• Nominated for Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award 2017

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Author:   Elizabeth Milroy (Professor and Department Head of Art & Art History, Philadelphia Museum of Art **as of 9/1/15 at Drexel University**)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.087kg
ISBN:  

9780271066769

ISBN 10:   0271066768
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   08 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction City 1 The Origins of Penn's Squares 2 Patterns of Growth and Governance in the Centre City Suburb 3 The Liberty Lands 4 Suburban Villas in the Schuylkill Valley 5 Nurseries of National Virtue: Private Estates and Public Culture 6 Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Origins of the American Picturesque Consolidation 7 Reviving Penn's Plan 8 The Fairmount Water Works: Picturing Civic Virtue 9 Rural Cemeteries, River Parks, and the Search for Rational Recreation 10 Greening the Consolidated City 11 The Fairmount Park Commission: Park Building for Preservation and Conservation 12 Spatial Politics and the Centennial Exhibition 13 A Work Unfinished Notes Bibliography Index

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The Grid and the River is magisterial. It is both an immensely erudite history and a compelling narrative of the shaping of Philadelphia, whose famous grid plan and immense park system are among the world s most distinctive manmade environments. Philosophy, sociology, technology, politics, and art are all shown to have been actors in the making of Philadelphia s spaces from the city s founding until the end of the nineteenth century. In telling their complex story, Elizabeth Milroy has written the best general history of the city in a generation. David B. Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania

The Grid and the River is magisterial. It is both an immensely erudite history and a compelling narrative of the shaping of Philadelphia, whose famous grid plan and immense park system are among the world s most distinctive man-made environments. Philosophy, sociology, technology, politics, and art are all shown to have been actors in the making of Philadelphia s spaces from the city s founding until the end of the nineteenth century. In telling their complex story, Elizabeth Milroy has written the best general history of the city in a generation. David B. Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania

Though it considers one aspect of a particular city in a particular period, this work will be more widely beneficial than its title suggests. . . . Meticulously researched and painstakingly documented, Milroy s study creates a blueprint for historical works and scholarly presentation. Henrietta Verma, Library Journal

Milroy has produced a grand history of public green spaces in Philadelphia, focusing on the development of, or rather, as Milroy reveals, the evolution of Fairmount Park through the 1876 centennial. . . . Thanks to Milroy, Fairmount Park can no longer be overlooked by city planning and design historians. Highly recommended. --A. E. Krulikowski, Choice

Author Information

Elizabeth Milroy is Professor and Department Head of Art and Art History in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University.

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