Regional Visionaries and Metropolitan Boosters: Decentralization, Regional Planning, and Parkways During the Interwar Years

From: Environmental History | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Conard, Rebecca | Copyright information

Regional Visionaries and Metropolitan Boosters: Decentralization, Regional Planning, and Parkways During the Interwar Years. By Matthew Dalbey. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. 202 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $95.00.

Matthew Dalbey, an urban planner, advises "historians of design artifacts" (p. 12) to consider the significance of scenic parkways in the United States within the context of urban reform and regional planning between World Wars I and II. In this slim vol...

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