Lindsey decided to commemorate the day in high style, closing traffic for two hours on Fifth Avenue, from 14th Street to Central Park. Yet Earth Day, forged in an era of strife and change, had its own personality marijuana smoke may have hung in wisps over some of the day's festivities, but violence and confrontation were nowhere to be seen. Since the mid-1960s, the streets has become a common outlet for political and social discontent. The context of Earth Day 1970, however, was far from celestial, reflecting the turbulence of the time. When the astronauts turned their cameras homeward, capturing the image of a delicate blue planet, the world looked upon itself with fresh understanding.

and urban studies, American studies, city planning, landscape architecture, and public policy.The first Earth Day may have been prompted, in part, by the recent moon landings. The most comprehensive first-hand account of urban change, this important contribution to urban studies will provide valued reading for students of U.S. In conclusion, the book suggests that the basic outlines of modern urban theory were set for subsequent generations by the first urbanists who emerged during the late 1800s. In addition, a series of shorter interludes, each more narrowly focused, supplements the sweep of the periodical literature provided in the chapters with close-up readings from major texts of the era. The volume opens with a background chapter on civic concerns expressed during the two decades following the Civil War and proceeds to four chapters detailing the full range of urban affairs during the final fifteen years of the century. The most comprehensive collection of observations on the period's rapidly expanding urban world, as expressed by its own chroniclers in periodicals of the times, this study highlights the rise of urban self-consciousness into the twentieth century. Park, as well as their lesser-known contemporaries, the study combines a number of customarily specialized perspectives: those of the urban designer, the social scientist, the administrator, the politician, the reformer, and the general observer of the city scene. Drawing on the writings of such major figures of nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century urban America as Frederick Law Olmsted, Daniel H.

Based on a reading of almost 6,000 entries from 37 periodicals published between the years 18, The Urbanists offers an insightful analysis of the development of an urban frame of mind.

Suburban Gentleman by John Lindsey