Research Catalog

Title

Mission 66 : modernism and the National Park dilemma / Ethan Carr.

Author

Carr, Ethan, 1958-

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press : In association with Library of American Landscape History, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Library of American Landscape History

Description

xv, 407 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

"This book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Mission sixty-six

Subjects

• Park facilities > United States > Maintenance and repair > History
• National parks and reserves > United States > Design
• Modern movement (Architecture) > United States
• Nationalpark
• Park facilities > United States > Design and construction > History
• USA
• United States > National Park Service > History
• Planung
• Landscape design > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-384) and index.

Contents

Introduction : "the people who use the parks" -- Pt. I. Mission 66 : planning -- 1. Newton Drury and the "dilemma of our parks" -- 2. Conrad Wirth and postwar "recreational planning" -- 3. Planning principles and the "Mission 66 prospectus" -- 4. Public policy and "our heritage" -- Pt. II. Mission 66 : design -- 5. Architecture -- 6. Preservation and interpretation -- 7. Landscape architecture -- Pt. III. Mission 66 : construction -- 8. Concessions and controversy -- 9. Park roads and wilderness -- 10. "Parks for America" -- Conclusion : "the capacity to provide enjoyment"

ISBN

• 9781558495876 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1558495878 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006037077

OCLC

• ocm76141700
• 76141700
• SCSB-5537938

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries