Shaping American Democracy: Landscapes and Urban Design 1st Edition

Shaping American Democracy: Landscapes and Urban Design 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319688091,9783319688107,331968809X,3319688103

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319688103
• ISBN-13: 9783319688107
• Author: Scott M. Roulier

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners—including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists—not only articulated unique visions of democracy in their extensive writings, but also instantiated those ideas in physical form. Using criteria such as the formation of social capital, support for human capabilities, and environmental sustainability, the book argues that the designs most closely associated with a communally-inflected version of democracy, such as Olmsted’s public parks or various New Urbanist projects, create conditions more favorable to human flourishing and more consistent with a democratic society than those that are individualistic in their orientation, such as urban modernism or most suburban forms.

Table contents:

1. American Democracy and Its Spaces: An Introduction
Part I. Primary Landscapes
2. American Pastoral: Jefferson’s Agrarian Republic
3. Democracy Gone Wild: Thoreau and the Wilderness Tradition
Part II. Rival Democratic Designs
4. Olmsted’s Public Parks: Civic-Spirited Design
5. Democracy and Individuality: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacres and the Burbs
Part III. Modernism: Promise, Problems and New Prescriptions
6. Democratic Ambivalence: Robert Moses and Modernist Urban Planning
7. Democracy and Civic Ecology: New Urbanism
Part IV. Design Portfolios: A Juried Competition
8. Democratic Designs: A Multipronged Assessment
9. Conclusion

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