Highland Park and River Oaks : the origins of garden suburban community planning in Texas / by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson
- Author
- Ferguson, Cheryl Caldwell, 1953-
- Published
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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- Series
- Contents
- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. City Planning in Dallas and Houston: The Genesis of Large-Scale Suburban Community Planning and Architecture in Dallas and Houston -- Chapter 2. The Planning and Development of Residential Communities in Dallas and Houston, 1850s/1920s -- Chapter 3. Highland Park: "Just Beyond the City's Dust and Smoke" -- Chapter 4. Highland Park West: "The Crowning Achievement of Highland Park" and the Highland Park Shopping Village -- Chapter 5. The Hogg Brothers, Hugh Potter, and the Development of River Oaks: "Homes to Last for All Time" -- Chapter 6. Highland Park and River Oaks: Their Texas Influence and Permanence -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Summary
- "Shows how the developers of Highland Park in Dallas and River Oaks in Houston were trying to create better living conditions in a countryside atmosphere away from the uncontrolled development that had blighted late 19th-century and early 20th-century urban neighborhoods in Texas. Also explores why planned suburban and community growth failed at the city-wide level and remained confined to elite suburbs. Also looks at subdivisions in Fort Worth, San Antonio, Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Beaumont, Galveston, and Port Arthur to provide information on how city planners worked with landscape architects to incorporate infrastructure improvements, coordinate landscape planning, and employ such legal devices as restrictive covenants to shape elite space coherently. The work of Texas' foremost suburban house architects, such as C.D. Hill, William Ward Watkin, and John F. Staub, is also analyzed"--
- Report Numbers
- Z UA380.8 F381hi
- Subject(s)
- City planning—Texas—History
- Garden suburbs—Texas—History
- Architecture and society—Texas—History
- Banlieues-jardins—Texas—Histoire
- Architecture et société—Texas—Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—City Planning & Urban Development
- ARCHITECTURE—Urban & Land Use Planning
- HISTORY—United States—State & Local—Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- Architecture and society
- City planning
- Garden suburbs
- Highland Park (Tex.)
- River Oaks (Tex.)
- Texas
- Texas—Highland Park
- Texas—River Oaks
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780292748378 (electronic bk.)
029274837X (electronic bk.)
9780292748361
0292748361 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322) and index.
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