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especially, during which the interests of urban and country developments prevailed over the more contemporary viewpoint of the landscape. One of the most important Italian contribution about this issue is the book La città americana, dalla guerra civile al New Deal (1973), related to Reps’ researches for various aspects but absolutely original in the hypothesis put forward. Infact this book proposes the analysis of city problems looking towards the capitalistic dialectic (a priori understood as the true American “tradition”) and omitting other developments. According to Giorgio Ciucci, Francesco Dal Co, Mario Manieri‐Elia and Manfredo Tafuri (the Italian authors of the book) the landscape was only a romantic interlude, part of progressive planning myth and basic element of agrarian ideology during 1930s. On the contrary our subject is the American landscape and his “tradition” during the frontier period in the culture of architectures, cities and territories. We want to show ad highlight how the landscape entered the American consciousness, how the wilderness entered the city, how nature and agriculture “built” interesting relationships with architectural and urban design. For these reasons when we talk about the analysis of the jeffersonian grid landscape we introduce the Wright’s project of Broadacre City offering a very different interpretation from that presented in La città americana. This research has arisen today from an academic interest in the landscape, in the relationship between man and nature, and follows once again in the direction of the studies by John Brinckerhoff Jackson, the author of some excellent books, which are little known in Europe and in Italy, and the critical attitude embodied by Lewis Mumford in The Brown Decades (1931). In the aforementioned publication Mumford compared culture and architectonical aspects in America, which was moving towards the ultimate frontier, and used symbolic figures to analyse the various events. We present similar roles, however, focus the reflection on the period from Independence (1776) to the Civil War (1861—65) and dwell on the ideas and the projects which have shaped the American landscape. For this very reason there will also be forays into more recent years and into projects known to the vast public of 6
architects. Furthermore, the symbolic events discussed in architectonic historiography, such as the classical influence of Thomas Jefferson’s architecture, Pierre Charles L’Enfant (1754‐1825) plan for Washington (1791), and the events which brought architecture right into the School of Chicago, to the Columbian Exhibition of 1893 and finally to the City Beautiful movement,(1870s‐1890s), all act as the background to a story, which goes off at a tangent to the story of the architectural and urban development of the main U.S. cities. Naturally, there are many examples we could have proposed to tell this brief history of the creation of the American landscape and of the development of the idea of nature. We have taken upon ourselves the responsibility of the choice, conscious that something has been left out, but aware of the necessity to do so in order to reconstruct an extensive and open‐minded vision, which does not hinge on specialized and technical aspects which, as Max Weber says, afflicts studies in the most varied fields in this day and age. The projects and events mentioned in this dissertation are often accompanied by a series of quotations from literature of the period. According to Walter Benjamin, these quotations do not protect the story, on the contrary, they purify it as they have the ability to tear the themes away from their original context and destroy the most obvious interpretation. In fact, they suddenly carry the reader into another world, a critical point in his reading, from which he will be able to draw similar or different conclusions from the author’s. We would like to think that different authors in distant moments wrote the pages of a great book which no‐one will manage to completely rewrite. To summarise, this research attempts to identify suitable tools with which to consider from a theoretical point of view the great architectural and landscape contributions by Frederick Law Olmsted and Frank Lloyd Wright, the most authentic, mature exponents of the relationship between man and nature. It wishes to tread the path of a tradition which embraces a long history with protagonists, such as Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. 7
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Page 8 and 9: Introduction The purpose of this re
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landscapes and of the towns themsel
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Figure 14- Certifi ed copy (1808) o
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Figure 16- Origins of plantation ho
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Figure 19- Uncle Sam (Constancia) P
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Figures 21/21.1- The plantation lan
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Figure 24- Live Oaks along the entr
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Figure 26- Pricipal facade from the
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Figure 29- Plan Scheme of Poplar Fo
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Figure 33- Jefferson’s 1809 Popla
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Figure 35- Diagram of the south par
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Figure 37- Shaker Village, Berkshir
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Figure 41-Shaker Church Family Roun
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Figure 43- The snake fences in Yate
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However, a grid configuration exten
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The lands freed from the American I
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In the centre of the town there wer
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the garden towns and of the satelli
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and pastoral life. The “middle la
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a tree, and each "leaf" encloses do
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This idea of dedicating a circular
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Figure 45- The grid: Clarck County,
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Figure 47- The grid system (Land Su
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Figure 50- Frank Lloyd Wright, Broa
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Figure 52- The grid and the develop
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Figure 54- Frederick Law Olmsted, R
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Figure 56- Frank Lloyd Wright, Park
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Mumford’s search for the characte
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the “revelation” can also be se
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The old vestiges of the town admire
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At this point we should not be surp
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Economy was described by Charles No
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Among the 41 Fourier‐type communi
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He purchased 90 acres of land, but
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the Shakers. After an 1842 visit to
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Settlements, such as Vineland (1861
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garden, much frequented, especially
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Several architects of the twentieth
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the unusual character of the place:
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Figure 57- Views of Community of Ec
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Figure 59- Right. Anaheim Plan and
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Figure 61- Sketch by Joseph Smith,
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Figure 63- Mormon town-planning. Bi
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The “middle landscape” Close me
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the large whitewashed factory>>. Th
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Despite the fact that the pastoral
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Industrial America One’s‐Self I
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of a nineteenth century company‐t
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A large number of works and investm
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designing and constructing the firs
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Schinkel posed the question which s
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All the works came to the astronomi
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Whereas, the agricultural and comme
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Furthermore, the Erie Canal was a p
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sailed downstream in 30. 180 Fulton
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on foot and on horseback animate th
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non‐existent places, such as rive
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Bridge is a good example of the ind
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job of Pony Express. They confirmed
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countryside” 196 . Moreover, the
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Figure 69- The industrial change of
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Figure 71- Birds’ eye view of New
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Figure 74- The map shows character
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Figure 76- Articifi al landscape of
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Figure 80- The natural landscape an
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Figure 82- Pioneer family in front
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Figure 85- Roads and fences in Wino
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Figure 87- John Augustus Roebling:T
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arrels of pork meat>>, often approv
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1845), he incited the United States
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Manifest Destiny began the period o
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First experiences of landscape gard
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In designs for a pleasure‐ground,
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By irony of fate, the first Preside
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construction, deriving from the bal
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was to be clarified during the firs
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Olmsted was particularly impressed
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The search for an ancient landscape
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country, enabled Hotchkiss to becom
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The prospects and developments of t
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Despite the fact that Loudon knew o
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At the same time, studies attempted
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compared to that of John Claudius L
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convinced many architects to dedica
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estricted to his theoretical works.
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architecture. Davis’ landscapes f
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Figure 89- Mount Airy Plantation (C
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Figure 91- Mount Vernon Plantation,
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Figure 93- Plan scheme of the Jeffe
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Figure 97- Thomas Jefferson-View of
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Figure 100- Henry Alexander Scammel
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Figure 102- Almerin Hotchkiss: Bell
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Figure 105- John Claudius Loudon’
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Figure 108- Above: Plan of a common
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Figure 113- Andrew Jackson Downing,
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Figure 115- The situation before Do
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Figure 118- Alexander Jackson Davis
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Landscape as a principle of urban p
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and did not come up to the expectat
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Vaux complemented Olmsted, he had a
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landscape designer could intensify
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of his two sons and of Charles Elio
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Figure 122- Right: Frederick Law Ol
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Figure 124- Frederick Law Olmsted,
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Figure 127- Frederick Law Olmsted,
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the true “line” of change. The
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Association, during the World’s C
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to its interpretation, which would
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means of transport allowed to come
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danger. This reasoning gave rise to
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The Wilderness and the frontier, de
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Figure 129- The Food of our Youth (
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Figure 132- “All the West going f
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Figure 134- A pile of American Biso
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conscience, to which the mass media
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Chronological Table -Events related
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‐J. Winkelmann: Alte Denkmäler d
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1821 ‐Canal Eire from Albany, NY,
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1846 ‐J. Roebling: Suspension bri
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1872 ‐Yellowstone National Park:
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DOWNING, Andrew Jackson, The Fruits
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MORSE, F.B. Samuel, Lectures on the
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WOODWARD, George Eveston and F.W.,
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O’SULLIVAN, John Louis, “Annexa
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CIUCCI Giorgio, DAL CO Francesco, M
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Ingraham, Karl Kamrath, Elizabeth K
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dei timidi, introduzione di Gianni
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PECK, Amelia (ed.), Alexander Jacks
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TEYSSOT, George (ed.), The American
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1997), Association of Collegiate Sc
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SEGAL, Howard P., (review by) “Le
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