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Book The Development of Public Recreation in Metropolitan Chicago

Download or read book The Development of Public Recreation in Metropolitan Chicago written by Elizabeth Halsey and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Development of Public Recreation in the Metropolitan Region of Chicago

Download or read book The Development of Public Recreation in the Metropolitan Region of Chicago written by Elizabeth Halsey and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Development of Public Recreation in Metropolitan Chicago

Download or read book The Development of Public Recreation in Metropolitan Chicago written by Elizabeth Halsey and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to Recreation and Leisure

Download or read book Introduction to Recreation and Leisure written by Human Kinetics (Organization) and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2013 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Recreation and Leisure, Second Edition, is a textbook designed for an initial undergraduate course in a recreation and leisure program. With its 21st-century views of recreation and leisure services, it incorporates indicators for future directions in the field and presents international perspectives as well as career opportunities in recreation and leisure. A new web resource is included.

Book Making Sense of the City

Download or read book Making Sense of the City written by Zane L. Miller and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of such topics as city charters, city planning texts, neighborhood organizations, municipal recreation programs, urban government reforms, urban identity, and fair housing campaigns, the authors offer insight into the process through which ideas about the nature of the city have affected action in the urban environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Journal of Health  Physical Education  Recreation

Download or read book Journal of Health Physical Education Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book City Games

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven A. Riess
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780252062162
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book City Games written by Steven A. Riess and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative reporters Newfield (NY Daily News) and Barrett (Village Voice) attempt to expose the Koch administration's descent into corruption and criminality. No bibliography. Dealing primarily with the time of the industrial radial city (1870-1960), Riess (history, Northeastern Illinois U.) examines the complex interrelationship and interdependence of sport and the city. He shows how demographic growth, evolving spatial arrangements, social reform, the formation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of American sport. Heavily annotated, with many striking bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Chicago Sports Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven A. Riess
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 025207615X
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Chicago Sports Reader written by Steven A. Riess and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history

Book Introduction to Recreation and Leisure  3E

Download or read book Introduction to Recreation and Leisure 3E written by Tapps, Tyler and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2019 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Recreation and Leisure, Third Edition, presents perspectives from 52 leading experts from around the world. It delves into foundational concepts, delivery systems, and programming services; offers an array of ancillaries; and helps students make informed career choices.

Book Urban Green

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  • Author : Colin Fisher
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2015-05-11
  • ISBN : 1469619962
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Urban Green written by Colin Fisher and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.

Book The Chicago Recreation Survey  1937

Download or read book The Chicago Recreation Survey 1937 written by Chicago Recreation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building the South Side

Download or read book Building the South Side written by Robin F. Bachin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, Chicago’s public parks, Comiskey Park, and the Black Belt to consider how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its culture and promote civic interaction. Bachin highlights how the creation of a local terrain of civic culture was a contested process, with the battle for cultural authority transforming urban politics and blurring the line between private and public space. In the process, universities, parks and playgrounds, and commercial entertainment districts emerged as alternative arenas of civic engagement. “Bachin incisively charts the development of key urban institutions and landscapes that helped constitute the messy vitality of Chicago’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public realm.”—Daniel Bluestone, Journal of American History "This is an ambitious book filled with important insights about issues of public space and its use by urban residents. . . . It is thoughtful, very well written, and should be read and appreciated by anyone interested in Chicago or cities generally. It is also a gentle reminder that people are as important as structures and spaces in trying to understand urban development." —Maureen A. Flanagan, American Historical Review

Book The Future of Outdoor Recreation in Metropolitan Regions of the United States

Download or read book The Future of Outdoor Recreation in Metropolitan Regions of the United States written by United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jens Jensen

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  • Author : Robert E. Grese
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780801859472
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Jens Jensen written by Robert E. Grese and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. When Jensen died in 1951 at the age of 90, the New York Times called him "the dean of American landscape architecture." In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese evaluates Jensen's work against the background of landscape design traditions that included Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as earlier movements in Europe. Grese examines Jensen's part in the Chicago cultural renaissance that occurred just prior to World War I, a movement that brought social reform, a new understanding of ecology, organic trends in architecture, and great strides in American literature. Drawing on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects, Grese presents a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes. Jens Jensen worked with some of the leading architects of his day--Sullivan and Wright among them--so many of his projects involved the extravagant estates of wealthy entrepreneurs in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. But Jensen also worked on schools, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, institutional homes, and government buildings. Long before environmental activists took over the idea, he foresaw the need to preserve the dunes, forests, prairies, and wetlands native to the Middle West. He championed the network of forest preserves around Chicago, protection of the Indiana Dunes (now a national lakeshore), the state park system in Illinois, and numerous parks in Wisconsin. Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens offers a compelling look at Jensen's visionary work and remarkable career.

Book Education Legislation  1973

Download or read book Education Legislation 1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: