Ethan Carr

Mission 66

Modernism and the National Park Dilemma

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet funding remained at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. In 1956 a ten-year billion-dollar initiative titled "Mission 66" was launched to reimagine the National Park Service. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy Ethan Carr's copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Library of American Landscape History
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 244mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1429g
• ISBN-13: 9781952620331
• ISBN-10: 1952620333
• Artikelnr.: 62160747

Autorenporträt

By Ethan Carr

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: "The People Who Use the Parks" 3
Part I: Mission 66: Planning
1: Newton Drury and the "Dilemma of Our Parks" 19
2: Conrad Wirth and Postwar "Recreational Planning" 39
3: Planning Principles and the "MISSION 66 Prospectus" 63
4: Public Policy and "Our Heritage" 103
Part II: Mission 66: Design
5: Architecture 127
6: Preservation and Interpretation 175
7: Landscape Architecture 199
Part III: Mission 66: Construction
8: Concessions and Controversy 227
9: Park Roads and Wilderness 255
10: "Parks for America" 291
Conclusion: "The Capacity to Provide Enjoyment" 333
Notes 343
Bibliography 375
Index 385