Anticipating Municipal Parks
London to Adelaide to garden city
Adelaide is well known for its encircling park lands and beautiful gardens. They have been the site of many prestigious events and at times the source of much contention. In Anticipating Municipal Parks, Don Johnson contests the accepted understanding that Colonel William Light was the sole architect of the city of Adelaide, revealing the often-ignored role of Light's Deputy Surveyor, George Strickland Kingston. Johnson also investigates the role and influence of John Arthur Roebuck and John Claudius Loudon on the course of town-planning theory, and the political and theoretical influences leading to the economic and so…
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- ISBN: 978-1-86254-966-1
- EAN: 9781862549661
- Produktnummer: 32401076
- Verlag: Wakefield Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.4 cm 424 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 424
Über den Autor
Donald Leslie Johnson has written extensively for books and journals on Australian and American architectural history and American city planning history and is completing research on Romanesque architecture and on the education of Frank Lloyd Wright. He attended Louis I. Kahn's masterclass of 1960 at the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of the American Institute of Architects. He is an Adjunct Professor of Architectural History at the University of South Australia, has taught design and history in a number of American and Australian universities, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and currently resides in Kangarilla, South Australia.
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