Highland Park and River Oaks : : The Origins of Garden Suburban Community Planning in Texas / / Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson.
In the early twentieth century, developers from Baltimore to Beverly Hills built garden suburbs, a new kind of residential community that incorporated curvilinear roads and landscape design as picturesque elements in a neighborhood. Intended as models for how American cities should be rationally, re...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter one . City Planning in Dallas and Houston: The Genesis of Large-Scale Suburban Community Planning and Architecture in Dallas and Houston
- Chapter two . The Planning and Development of Residential Communities in Dallas and Houston, 1850s–1920s
- Chapter three . Highland Park: “Just Beyond the City’s Dust and Smoke”
- Chapter four . Highland Park West: “The Crowning Achievement of Highland Park” and the Highland Park Shopping Village
- Chapter five . The Hogg Brothers, Hugh Potter, and the Development of River Oaks: “Homes to Last for All Time”
- Chapter six . Highland Park and River Oaks: Their Texas Influence and Permanence
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index