Download or read book From Water Supply to urban Oasis written by Steven R. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Water Supply to Urban Oasis a History of White Rock Lake Park Dallas Texas written by Steven R. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Rock Lake Park is the largest and most popular public recreation area in Dallas. Every year it attracts thousands of visitors who come to enjoy its diverse amenities and pastoral setting. In 1927, two years before its establishment, an anonymous newspaper reporter foresaw the park's popularity, accurately predicting it would quickly become "the people's playground." More recently, White Rock Lake Park has been dubbed an "urban oasis." No one however, has perhaps said it better than former Dallas Morning News columnist John Anders, who termed the park's 2,343 acres "the soft soul of the city." For some people, the lake itself is the main attraction-a perfect place for sailing, kayaking or canoeing. For others, the reservoir serves as a scenic backdrop to their daily exercise regimen. Just visit the park during the early morning hours. With countless human beings circling the lake in both directions, on foot or astride bicycles, it may seem as if there is a race in progress! Chances are, there might be. In addition to the annual "Run the Rock" marathon, dozens of lesser-known (but just as important) charity events are held each year at the park. Other people like to make their way around the water's edge by walking, rollerblading, or skating. Some ride on horseback. The lakeshore is also a magnet for anglers, bird-watchers, and nature lovers of every stripe, not to mention the thousands of people who come to the park for family fun-picnicking, flying kites, playing ball, and so on. More than a few visitors are fond of the park because it brings back happy childhood memories-its sights, sounds, and smells recalling a time when they were young and carefree. This book is an outgrowth of the website the author created in 1996 in order to share his affinity for and interest in White Rock Lake Park.
Download or read book White Rock Lake written by Sally Rodriguez and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Dallas city leaders approved the damming of White Rock Creek to create a new water source for the increasing needs of a growing city. As a result, so much of the life and history of Dallas has echoed through the life and history of White Rock Lake. In the early decades, the lake was home to many private summer homes and boat houses, as well as hunting and fishing clubs. Soon thereafter, a bathing beach, sailing clubs, public boathouses, and picnic facilities were added. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration transformed the lake with more recreational and leisure amenities. World War II brought increased military uses that included a POW camp for German officers. Those early city leaders could hardly know that the lake they were creating 10 miles outside of Dallas would become an urban oasis enjoyed by over two million visitors a year.
Download or read book White Rock Lake written by Sally Rodriguez and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Dallas city leaders approved the damming of White Rock Creek to create a new water source for the increasing needs of a growing city. As a result, so much of the life and history of Dallas has echoed through the life and history of White Rock Lake. In the early decades, the lake was home to many private summer homes and boat houses, as well as hunting and fishing clubs. Soon thereafter, a bathing beach, sailing clubs, public boathouses, and picnic facilities were added. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration transformed the lake with more recreational and leisure amenities. World War II brought increased military uses that included a POW camp for German officers. Those early city leaders could hardly know that the lake they were creating 10 miles outside of Dallas would become an urban oasis enjoyed by over two million visitors a year.
Download or read book Highland Park and River Oaks written by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, developers from Baltimore to Beverly Hills built garden suburbs, a new kind of residential community that incorporated curvilinear roads and landscape design as picturesque elements in a neighborhood. Intended as models for how American cities should be rationally, responsibly, and beautifully modernized, garden suburban communities were fragments of a larger (if largely imagined) garden city—the mythical “good” city of U.S. city-planning practices of the 1920s. This extensively illustrated book chronicles the development of the two most fully realized garden suburbs in Texas, Dallas’s Highland Park and Houston’s River Oaks. Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson draws on a wealth of primary sources to trace the planning, design, financing, implementation, and long-term management of these suburbs. She analyzes homes built by such architects as H. B. Thomson, C. D. Hill, Fooshee & Cheek, John F. Staub, Birdsall P. Briscoe, and Charles W. Oliver. She also addresses the evolution of the shopping center by looking at Highland Park’s Shopping Village, which was one of the first in the nation. Ferguson sets the story of Highland Park and River Oaks within the larger story of the development of garden suburban communities in Texas and across America to explain why these two communities achieved such prestige, maintained their property values, became the most successful in their cities in the twentieth century, and still serve as ideal models for suburban communities today.
Download or read book White Rock Lake written by Sally Rodriguez and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Dallas city leaders approved the damming of White Rock Creek to create a new water source for the increasing needs of a growing city. As a result, so much of the life and history of Dallas has echoed through the life and history of White Rock Lake. In the early decades, the lake was home to many private summer homes and boat houses, as well as hunting and fishing clubs. Soon thereafter, a bathing beach, sailing clubs, public boathouses, and picnic facilities were added. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration transformed the lake with more recreational and leisure amenities. World War II brought increased military uses that included a POW camp for German officers. Those early city leaders could hardly know that the lake they were creating 10 miles outside of Dallas would become an urban oasis enjoyed by over two million visitors a year.
Download or read book Springs of Texas written by Gunnar M. Brune and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Download or read book Historic Dallas Parks written by John H. Slate and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dallas, called Big D, is the eighth largest city in the United States and rests on 343 square miles of rolling prairie. To meet the growing recreational and cultural needs of its citizens, the Dallas Park and Recreation Department maintains more than 23,018 park acresone of the largest municipal park systems in the country. Dallas has over 400 individual parks, including community centers, swimming pools, athletic fields, and a metropolitan zoo. From such well-known places as Fair Park, home of the State Fair of Texas and the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936, to Dealey Plaza, and to lesser-known neighborhood parks, Dallas parks have a rich history stretching from the days when Dallas was a western boom town to a 21st century metropolis. Historic Dallas Parks explores the origins and early development of this nationally recognized system with interesting background stories and facts and illustrated with photographs and historical documents from the collections of the Dallas Municipal Archives.
Download or read book Historic Grand Prairie written by Kathy A. Goolsby and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Ggrand Prarie, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Download or read book Urban Hydrology White Rock Creek Basin Dallas Texas written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division and published by . This book was released on 1965* with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contested Waters written by Jeff Wiltse and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.
Download or read book Park and Playground System Dallas Texas 1921 1923 written by Dallas (Tex.). City Park Board and published by . This book was released on 1923* with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coordinated Plan Open Space Development Trinity River System in Dallas Texas written by Marvin Springer and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of urban development on stream ecosystems in nine metropolitan study areas across the United States written by James F. Coles and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Water Supply and Recreation Studies on Lake Ray Hubbard written by URS/Forrest and Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Neely Bryan written by Steven R. Butler and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas, Texas.
Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Wars written by Peter Annin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
