Overview
- Introduces the unique democratic visions of Olmsted, Wright, Moses, and several new urbanists to a broader academic audience, to treat them as theorists of democracy in their own right
- Blends together research in urban policy with environmental political theory by focusing on both landscapes and build spaces, i.e humans' relationship to nature and the environment
- Includes chapters on specific architects, planners and design movements--information that is relevant not just to political theorists and urban studies scholars but also to practitioners
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Primary Landscapes
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Rival Democratic Designs
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Modernism: Promise, Problems and New Prescriptions
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Design Portfolios: A Juried Competition
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“Bringing diverse voices like Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and Jane Jacobs into conversation with contemporary political theory, Roulier offers not only a rich intellectual history but important insights into how land-use issues raise critical challenges for the future of our democracy. This is an invaluable book that will appeal to scholars and students of political theory, environmental studies, intellectual history, public policy, and urban planning.” (Peter Cannavò, Associate Professor of Government and Director of Environmental Studies, Hamilton College, USA)
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Book Title: Shaping American Democracy
Book Subtitle: Landscapes and Urban Design
Authors: Scott M. Roulier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68810-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68809-1Published: 23 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88662-6Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68810-7Published: 06 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 237
Topics: Democracy, Cultural Policy and Politics, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Politics