Download or read book The Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City written by Kansas City (Mo.). Board of Park Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kansas City s Parks and Boulevards written by Patrick Alley and Dona Boley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs documenting the founding and development of Kansas City's parks and boulevards from the late 1800s, as part of the City Beautiful movement.
Download or read book The Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City written by Kansas City (Mo.). Board of Park Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Board of Park and Boulevard Commissioners of Kansas City Mo Embracing Recommendations for the Establishment of a Park and Boulevard System for Kansas City written by Kansas City (Mo.). Board of park commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A City Within a Park written by Jane Mobley and published by Lowell Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City Missouri written by Ray Floyd Weirick and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Board of Park and Boulevard Commissioners of Kansas City Missouri written by Board of Park and Boulevard Commissioners of Kansas City, Missouri and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Itinerary of Inspection of the Park and Boulevard System of Kansas City and the Park Department s Activities written by Kansas City (Mo.). Board of Park Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kansas City s Parks and Boulevards written by Patrick Alley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City the filthiest in the United States. The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was no garbage collection service, and herding livestock through the city was only recently prohibited. Through the diligent efforts of a handful of recently arrived citizens, political, financial, and botanical skills were successfully applied to a nascent parks system. Squirrel pastures, cliffs and bluffs, ugly ravines, and shanties and slums were turned into a gridiron of green, with chains of parks and boulevards extending in all directions. Wherever the system penetrated well-settled localities, the policy was to provide playgrounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, pools, and field houses. By the time the city fathers were finished, Kansas City could boast of 90 miles of boulevards and 2,500 acres of urban parks.
Download or read book The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City written by William Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the planning that began in 1890s Kansas City for beautiful parks and boulevards by George Kessler and city officials.
Download or read book Park System of Kansas City written by Kansas City (Mo.). Board of Park Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Legacy of Design written by Janice Lee and published by Kansas City Center for Design Education & Research. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kansas City s Historic Hyde Park written by Patrick Alley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyde Park, located on Westport's outskirts south of early Kansas City, was the first stop on the long trek down the Santa Fe Trail. Good pasture and a natural cave spring were early attributes. During the real estate boom of the 1880s, the area was platted, but the crash of 1888 intervened, and only a few houses were built. By 1900, with the recovery of the economy and the development of Janssen Place as a private street, the area became the preferred community for Kansas City's wealthy. The architectural style is Queen Anne, Prairie School, Neo-Georgian, Colonial Revival, Kansas City Shirtwaist, and Shingle. These homes glitter with original brass fixtures, lead and stained-glass windows, and oak, mahogany, and walnut interiors. Some of Kansas City's most famous and notorious have lived in Hyde Park, from wealthy businessmen and entertainment stars to serial killers.
Download or read book Enhancing Urban Centers written by Chadd Randall Fuemmeler and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s George Kessler and the Board of Parks and Boulevard Commissioners (BPBC) developed a Parks and Boulevard system for Kansas City, MO. laying the foundation for the city to grow. Development of the system is the result of the combination of Kessler's ideology, as well as his planning and design practices. The parks and boulevard system established a framework giving due weight to existing conditions, adapting itself to topography, avoiding forced routes and forced construction. This framework based itself around the value of beauty, the city's duty, the effect of parkways and boulevards on real-estate values, and the experience of other cities. Today, auto-centric sprawl has revealed its limitations, bringing focus back to the neglected urban fabric. The current urban fabric is dominated with automotive infrastructure responding only to the pedestrian where convenient or required. Results of this trend in development are concrete jungles. Unfortunately, the city character developed by the expanded parks and open space systems has been or is in danger of being lost. Opportunities for redevelopment are rising as these expansive urban infrastructures are reaching the end of their designed life cycle. As people begin to repopulate urban areas, revitalization of the parks and green space is of high priority. Adapting George Kessler's practices, principles, and ideals behind the Kansas City Parks and Boulevard System to contemporary practices, principles, and ideals in landscape architecture will allow a designer to enhance urban centers. Using my findings, I will develop a master plan for the Kansas City downtown loop. By enhancing sites with parks and plazas connected with pedestrian friendly greenways, the downtown loop will be a safer, more pleasant place for pedestrians and motorists alike.
Download or read book Historic Resources Survey of the 1893 Parks Boulevard System written by Deon Wolfenbarger and published by . This book was released on 1989* with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A City s Fight for Beauty written by Henry Schott and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Major Parks Boulevards Parkways and Greenways Kansas City Missouri written by Kansas City (Mo.). Park Dept and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
