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Author | : Angelique Bamberg |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2014-09-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0822980703 |
Chatham Village, located in the heart of Pittsburgh, is an urban oasis that combines Georgian colonial revival architecture with generous greenspaces, recreation facilities, surrounding woodlands, and many other elements that make living there a unique experience. Founded in 1932, it has gained international recognition as an outstanding example of the American Garden City planning movement and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2005. Chatham Village was the brainchild of Charles F. Lewis, then director of the Buhl Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based charitable trust. Lewis sought an alternative to the substandard housing that plagued low-income families in the city. He hired the New York-based team of Clarence S. Stein and Henry Wright, followers of Ebenezer Howard's utopian Garden City movement, which sought to combine the best of urban and suburban living environments by connecting individuals to each other and to nature. Angelique Bamberg provides the first book-length study of Chatham Village, in which she establishes its historical significance to urban planning and reveals the complex development process, social significance, and breakthrough construction and landscaping techniques that shaped this idyllic community. She also relates the design of Chatham Village to the work of other pioneers in urban planning, including Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., landscape architect John Nolen, and the Regional Planning Association of America, and considers the different ways that Chatham Village and the later New Urbanist movement address a common set of issues. Above all, Bamberg finds that Chatham Village's continued viability and vibrance confirms its distinction as a model for planned housing and urban-based community living.
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Total Pages | : 1004 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Author | : Janet M. Daly |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738509891 |
Chatham is a historic Cape Cod town with coastline on Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. The first European settler, William Nickerson, recognized its beauty and knew that farming and fishing would provide sustenance for future settlers. Chatham has many stories to tell-tales of boating and fishing, railroads and hotels, churches and theaters, shipwrecks and rescues, and wireless communication and war efforts. With vivid photographs, Chatham brings the town to life from the early 1800s to the 1960s. In these pages, see Chatham's lighthouse, which has warned of treacherous sandbars off the coast and has witnessed hundreds of shipwrecks since 1808, and the Mack Monument, which memorializes one valiant rescue. Visit the South Chatham Village Hall, which has rocked with laughter at Silver Circle entertainments; the Fourth of July parades; the 1912 and 1962 festivities celebrating Chatham's incorporation; and the weekly summer band concerts. Learn how technology changed Chatham from the arrival of the railroad and the building of the Marconi Wireless Station to the construction of the Chatham Naval Air Station, with its blimps and seaplanes protecting the East Coast from German submarines during World War I.
Author | : Will L. Lloyd |
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Total Pages | : 890 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : New York (State) |
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Author | : A.R. Lawrence & Co |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Columbia County (N.Y.) |
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Total Pages | : 1282 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : United States. National Resources Committee |
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Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1939 |
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Total Pages | : 1312 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Angelo Heilprin |
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Total Pages | : 2078 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Geography |
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Author | : J.B. Lippincott Company |
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Total Pages | : 2934 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Gazetteers |
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