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Urban parks

Here are entered general works on urban parks and works limited to urban parks of regions, countries, states, etc. Works on parks of individual cities, city regions or metropolitan areas are entered under the heading Parks with local subdivision.

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• Parks
• Public spaces

• Urban parks -- Design and construction
• Urban parks -- United States

• Central city parks
• City parks
• Municipal parks

• The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America (originally published 1982; this edition Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Galen Cranz (PDF files at MIT)

• The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America (originally published 1982; this edition Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Galen Cranz (PDF files at MIT)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (Cambridge, MA: Printed for the American Social Science Association, 1870), by Frederick Law Olmsted (reprint: page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Parks: Being Two Papers Read Before the American Social Science Association in 1870 and 1880, Entitled, Respectively, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, and A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (1902), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google; US access only)

• Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of the Katmai and Aniakchak NPS Units, Alaska (1996), by Frank B. Norris (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of the Katmai and Aniakchak NPS Units, Alaska (1996), by Frank B. Norris (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Land Reborn: A History of Administration and Visitor Use in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, by Theodore Catton (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of the Katmai and Aniakchak NPS Units, Alaska (1996), by Frank B. Norris (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Legacy of the Gold Rush: An Administrative History of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (1996), by Frank B. Norris (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
• Hard Drive to the Klondike: Promoting Seattle During the Gold Rush (1998), by Lisa Mighetto and Marcia Babcock Montgomery (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context (OTA-E-394; 1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context (OTA-E-394; 1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context (OTA-E-394; 1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context (OTA-E-394; 1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wolves of Mount McKinley (1944), by Adolph Murie (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Fauna of the National Parks of the United States: Birds and Mammals of Mount McKinley National Park (1938), by Joseph S. Dixon (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Fauna of the National Parks of the United States: Birds and Mammals of Mount McKinley National Park (1938), by Joseph S. Dixon (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Wolves of Mount McKinley (1944), by Adolph Murie (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• An Administrative History of Sitka National Historical Park, by Joan M. Antonson and William S. Hanable (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Jack Brink (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• 50 Switzerlands in One: Banff the Beautiful, Canada's National Park (Banff: "Crag and Canyon", ca. 1915), by H. C. Stovel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Lost Tracks: Buffalo National Park, 1909-1939 (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Jennifer Brower (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Lost Tracks: Buffalo National Park, 1909-1939 (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Jennifer Brower (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Polishing the Jewel: An Administrative History of Grand Canyon National Park, by Michael F. Anderson (PDF files at National Park Service)

• Polishing the Jewel: An Administrative History of Grand Canyon National Park, by Michael F. Anderson (PDF files at National Park Service)

• Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site: An Administrative History (1093), by Albert D. Manchester and Ann Manchester (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona: A Centennial History of the First Prehistoric Reserve, 1892-1992, by A. Berle Clemensen (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona: A Centennial History of the First Prehistoric Reserve, 1892-1992, by A. Berle Clemensen (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Navajo National Monument: A Place and Its People, by Hal Rothman (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona (1958), by Albert H. Schroeder and Homer F. Hastings (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations, ed. by Terence Young and Robert Riley (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Discover Tech Hands-On Engineering Activities: Playful Building (ca. 2015), by Keliann LaConte, Andrew Shaner, Stephanie Shipp, and Yolanda Ballard (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Royal Palaces and Parks of France (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1910), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Landscape Conservation (Washington: National Park Service, 1935), by F. A. Waugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bulletin of the American Association of Park Superintendents (full serial archives)

• An Essay on Grades, Drainage, and Extension of the Public Grounds in the City of Washington as a System of General Improvement (page images at MOA)

• Palette of Plants: Sequel to Planting Design (Champaign, IL: Garrard Press, c1950), by Florence Bell Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planting Design (New York and London: Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1940), by Florence Bell Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by Frank J. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Garden as a Picture (extract from Scribner's magazine, 1907), by Beatrix Farrand, illust. by Henry McCarter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds; and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-Yard (London: W. S. Orr and co., 1850), by J. C. Loudon, ed. by Mrs. Loudon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amateur Garden (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by George Washington Cable (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth (New York and London: Macmillan, 1901), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Followed by a Description of the Plants, Shrubs and Trees for the Open-Air Garden and Their Culture (13th edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1921), by W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton, Esq.: Being His Entire Works on These Subjects (London and Edinburgh: Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman and Co., and A. and C. Black, 1840), by Humphry Repton, ed. by J. C. Loudon
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Woman's Hardy Garden (New York and London: Macmillan, 1903), by Helena Rutherfurd Ely, illust. by Charles Frederick Chandler (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Beasts and Men, Being Carl Hagenbeck's Experiences for Half a Century Among Wild Animals: An Abridged Translation (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912), by Carl Hagenbeck, trans. by Hugh Elliot and Arthur Gordon Thacker, contrib. by P. Chalmers Mitchell (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.