10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOWNLESS»
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Regional Visionaries and Metropolitan Boosters: ...
Townless. Highway. or. the. Highwayless. Town. Benton MacKaye wrote
specifically about parkways and highways as limited-access transportation
corridors for linking cities and towns. Together, Mumford and MacKaye put
forward further ...
2
Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the ...
Trailwork. and. the. "Townless. Highway". 1928-1931. The New Exploration
represented a major intellectual milestone in MacKaye's career. But he still had to
survive, as Mumford later observed, "by tightening his belt and accepting what
the ...
3
Driven wild: how the fight against automobiles launched the ...
Although MacKaye's "townless highway" design had an aesthetic component, it
was much more than a plan for recreational parkways or highway beautification.
It embodied his notion of roadside "levees," allowing people and commodities to
...
4
Watching the Traffic Go By: Transportation and Isolation in ...
townless. highways. and. highwayless. towns. The October revolution of the
automobile, which will effectually transform the physical means of life and make
possible a higher type of civilization, has hardly begun. mackaye and mumford
1931: ...
5
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, ...
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the
American Superhighw Earl Swift. suburbs cities' tax base and, [>] mass transit
and, [>]–[>], [>] postwargrowth, [>]–[>], [>] and streetcar lines, [>], [>] Sunnyside ...
6
The Physical City: Public Space and the Infrastructure
These distinctions in a circulation system and particularly the development of the
latter type of road also reflected another concern of the RPAA in town planning:
the “townless highway” and its close relation, the “highwayless town.
7
The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning
What Radburn does in the local community, the townless highway would do for
the country at large. This is genuine motorway planning — as opposed to the
backward and conventional planning in which we now sink millions of dollars of
the ...
8
The Smart Growth Manual
The. Townless. Highway. Protect rural thoroughfares from development.
Anywhere, USA: Strip development is the fate of most rural highways not
protected against commercial zoning. The great failure of American planning can
be found at the ...
Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon, 2009
9
The City Cultures Reader
The new highways. like those of New Jersey and Westchester. to mention only
examples drawn locally. are based more or less on a system definitively
formulated by Benton MacKaye in his various papers on the Townless Highway.
The most ...
Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall, Iain Borden, 2004
10
The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
'townless'. north. As mentioned above, no proper medieval towns were
established in the northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula or in the Norse
island communities of the Atlantic. This does not mean that these areas were. 34
Andersson ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOWNLESS»
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townless is used in the context of the following news items.
A highway runs through it
Ann Arbor is a prime example of a nearby municipality where the concept of what MacKaye and Mumford called the “townless highway” was implemented. «Detroit Metro Times, Jan 13»
