Shaping American Democracy (eBook)

Landscapes and Urban Design

Scott M. Roulier (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
X, 237 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-68810-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners-including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists-not only articulated unique visions of democracy in their extensive writings, but also instantiated those ideas in physical form. Using criteria such as the formation of social capital, support for human capabilities, and environmental sustainability, the book argues that the designs most closely associated with a communally-inflected version of democracy, such as Olmsted's public parks or various New Urbanist projects, create conditions more favorable to human flourishing and more consistent with a democratic society than those that are individualistic in their orientation, such as urban modernism or most suburban forms.

Scott M. Roulier is the John Trimble Professor of Political Philosophy at Lyon College, USA 

Inhalt

1. American Democracy and Its Spaces: An Introduction2. American Pastoral: Jefferson’s Agrarian Republic3. Democracy Gone Wild: Thoreau and the Wilderness Tradition4. Olmsted’s Public Parks: Civic-Spirited Design5. Democracy and Individuality: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacres and the Burbs6. Democratic Ambivalence: Robert Moses and Modernist Urban Planning7. Democracy and Civic Ecology: New Urbanism8. Democratic Designs: A Multipronged Approach9. Conclusion. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2017
• Zusatzinfo: X, 237 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Schlagworte: Architecture • Commons • Communalism • Democracy • Design • Environment • Frederick Olmsted • Individualism • Landscape • Landscapes • New Urbanism • private space • property • Public Space • Robert Moses • Thomas Jefferson • urban geography and urbanism
• ISBN-10: 3-319-68810-3 / 3319688103
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-68810-7 / 9783319688107