Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery
(Part of the Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series)
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Originally published in 1989, this book offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first landscape in the United States to be designed in the picturesque style. Inspired by developments in England and France, and founded in 1831, Mount Auburn became the prototype for the "rural cemetery" movement and was an important precursor of many of America's public parks, beginning with New York City's Central Park.This new edition has been completely redesigned in a larger format, with new photographs and a new epilogue that carries the story forward into the twentieth century. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1558495711
ISBN13:9781558495715
Release Date:October 2007
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:373 Pages
Weight:4.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 10.0" x 12.0"
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