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Online Articles:

Hidden History, Revealed Landmarks by Alan Hess

The Houses of Levittown in the Context of Postwar American Culture by Barbara M. Kelly

Interpreting Post-World War II Suburban Landscapes as Historic Resources by David L. Ames

Ranch Houses Are Not All the Same by David Bricker

Surveying the Suburbs: Back to the Future? by Claudia R. Brown

Thomas Church, Garrett Eckbo, and the Postwar California Garden by Marc Trieb

Articles originally appeared in Preserving the Recent Past 1 and 2, published by the Historic Preservation Education Foundation with the National Park Service and the Association for Preservation Technology International, Washington, DC, 1995 and 2000.

Reference Services and Specialized Repositories:

The Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States (www.wavehill.org/catalog) A national catalog designed to assist researchers records and repositories documenting the work of landscape architects and landscape architectural firms in the United States. Catalog publishes a quarterly newsletter featuring special collections, advances in records management such as planning digital collections, and researcher queries.

WAVE HILL
675 West 252nd Street
Bronx, New York 104471-2899
Email: catalog@wavehill.org

US COPAR/Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records. A national network of state or regional committees committed to the preservation of architectural records. A national Newsletter for COPAR was published from 1980-1985 and 1996-1997. Regional guides to architects and architectural firms have been published for New York City, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia. A nationwide list of state and regional committees is maintained by the Massachusetts committee and is available electronically (http://libraries.mit.edu/rvc/mcopar/coparcontactinfo.html). National inquiries should be addressed to:

C.Ford Peatross
Curator of Architecture, Design, and Engineering Collections
Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-4840
Email: cpea@loc.gov

U.S. Geological Survey (http://mapping.usgs.gov) makes available U.S.G.S topographic maps. As part of the Global Land Information System (GLIS), it also makes available the aerial surveys, called digital orthophoto quadrangles or DEQ's, used to revise digital line graphs and topographic maps (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov).

VAF/Vernacular Architecture Forum maintains a link to a bibliography of published writings on topics such as vernacular housing, landscape design, and planning. Organization regularly publishes a newsletter which contains current bibliography. Proceedings of annual meetings are published periodically by the University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, and University of Missouri Press, Columbia.

Library of Congress maintains an extensive library collection, including books, periodicals, prints and photographs, maps, and microform versions of collections in other repositories. A catalog of bibliographical references and a number of research tools are available online. The Manuscripts Division contains the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers and records of the American Civic Association. Prints and Photographs Collection maintains many original materials and offers an online catalog of many of its holdings; its holdings include the maps of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, which are currently being digitized (along with those maintained by the Bureau of Census) and are being made available to libraries on cdrom by a private vendor. A complete set of Garden and Forest is available online (lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/gardfor).

Oral History Association (www.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha.html) maintains an up-to-date bibliography and "Oral History Evaluation Guidelines" (Oral History Association, Pamphlet Number 3, adopted 1989, revised Sept. 2000). Association publishes Oral History Review twice a year.

Library of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.. Extensive collection of literature on the history of suburbanization and housing in the United States, including the multi-volume Proceedings of President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership (1932) and technical bulletins, circulars, and manuals published by the Federal Housing Administration in the 1930s and 1940s.

Olmsted Archives/Frederick Law Olmsted National Historical Site, 99 Warren Street, Brookline, Massachusetts 02445 (www.nps.gov/frla/). Collection includes general plans and drawings for the firm's many subdivisions. Selected finding aids and guides to the collection are available. A reference volume listing Olmsted projects, The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm, 1857-1950 (1987), has been published by the National Association for Olmsted Parks, 1987.

Horticulture Branch Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.(www.si.edu/info/libraries-archives). Library of books, trade catalogs, and periodicals related to history of horticulture and landscape design in the United States. Also includes the Archives of American Gardens, an ongoing project of the Garden Club of America, to document American gardens through digitized photographic collection of gardens (www.si.edu/gardens/aag.html).

Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/). A special collection of manuscripts, drawings, blueprints, and other records pertaining to landscape architecture, architecture and city planning, includes records of masters of design such as John Nolen and Clarence Stein, as well as records of the Regional Plan Association responsible for the New York Regional Plan of the 1920s.

National Agricultural Research Library, Beltsville, Maryland (www.nal.usda.gov/). Extensive library of books on agriculture, horticulture, and landscape architecture,and circulars and bulletins produced nationwide by agricultural extension services and agricultural research stations, including those on home landscaping, roadside plantings, and village improvements. Online catalog, Agricola, is available (www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/english/catalog-basic.html).

Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley (www.ced.berkley.edu/cedarchives/). Collections document the work of many prominent West Coast architects and landscape architects, including Julia Morgan, Charles Sumner Greene, Garrett Eckbo, Thomas D. Church, and William Wurster. An index describing each collection and providing biographical and bibliographical information is available .

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University (www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery). Extensive collection of books, catalogs, plans, periodicals, and oral history collections covering themes in architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and New York area development. Many of the Avery's extensive collection of trade catalogs, architectural guides, and periodicals are available in microform in major libraries.

Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (www.gsd.harvard.edu//library/special collections.html). Special collections include manuscripts, drawings, and plans by a number of noted architects, planners, and landscape architects, including Arthur C. Comey, Eleanor Raymond, Charles Mulford Robinson, Hugh Stubbins, Arthur Shurcliff, Dan Kiley, Robert H. Whitten, Walter Gropius, and John C. Olmsted. Also includes the photographs of photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals, including numerous views of residences and gardens.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C. (www.doaks.org/). Contains an extensive collection of books and periodicals on landscape architecture and horticulture.

Library of the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (www.icls.harvard.edu/). In conjunction with the Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies, the library maintains an expanding collection of works in landscape conservation, design, history, management, and preservation, particularly related to activities in the northeastern United States.

Winterthur Library and Archives, Wilmington, Delaware (www.winterthur.org/index-library.html). Major library of American domestic design, especially furniture and furnishings. Printed Books and Periodicals Collection contains an extensive collection of home and garden magazines.

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project, Philadephia, Pennsylvania (www.philadelphiabuildings.org). A richly illustrated, web-based database providing free public access to information on the Philadelphia region's built environment and on the work of Philadelphia-based architects. Project is jointly sponsored by The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, Philadelphia Historical Commission, and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Eichler Network (www.eichlernetwork.com). California-based organization provides technical information about history and home repair to owners of homes built by merchant Builder Joseph Eichler. In addition to website, network publishes a regular newsletter.

National Archives and Record Centers (www.nara.gov). Several record groups (R.G.) contain information about federal housing programs as well as a wealth of statistical and research data acquired on local housing trends, methods of home construction, and home financing. Although most records are located in Archives II in College Park, Maryland, additional records may exist in regional repositories. Preliminary inventories (P.I.) are available on-line and in published form for most record groups.

Records of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), dating from 1934, are found in R.G. 31 (P.I. 111, 1965, and P.I. 45, 1952) and includes selected applications for FHA-approved homes, cartographic and written records pertaining to selected examples of FHA-insured, large-scale rental housing complexes, and real estate survey records and rating maps. Records include a representative group of applications for FHA mortgage approval. Unfortunately many of the administrative files for FHA's early years have been lost.

Records of the Emergency Fleet Corporation of the U.S. Shipping Board are found in R.G. 32 (P.I. 97, 1956) and the U.S. Housing Authority of the U.S. Department of Labor are found in R.G. 3 (P.I. 140,1962) include textual, cartographic, and photographic records of World War I emergency housing, 1918-19.

Records for the National Housing Administration established in 1942 to consolidate all federal housing programs (U.S. Public Housing Authority, Federal Housing Administration, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and World War II housing programs) into one agency are found in the Records of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, R.G. 207 (P.I. 164). These include FHA files on housing statistics and market analyses as well as the records of the Central Housing Committee which was established in 1935 upon the recommendation of the National Resources Board and served as a clearinghouse on all matters pertaining to housing, including land use, prefabricated methods of construction, and financing.

Records of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board are found in R.G. 195 (P.I. NC-94, 1965, manuscript form); cartographic records include several hundred small house designs approved for use by the Federal Home Building Service Plan, 1938-1942. Records of Defense Homes Corporation, 1940-1949, are among the Records of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in R.G. 234. Records of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development are found in R.G. ((?)). Records for the U.S. Census Records are found in R.G. 29. Records of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in R.G. 167 contain the records of the National Bureau of Standards and the President's Conference on Home Building and Ownership, 1930-33.

Historic Periodicals:

Popular Magazines

American Builder
The American Home
American Homes and Gardens
Better Homes and Gardens
Building Age (later Building Age and The Builder's Journal)
Bungalow Magazine
California Arts and Architecture
California Garden
Carpentry and Building
Cosmopolitan
Country Life in America
The Craftsman
Delineator
The Family Circle and Parlor Annual (The Family Circle)
Garden and Forest
The Garden Magazine (Garden Magazine and Home Builder)
Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist
Good Housekeeping
Harper's Monthly
The Horticulturist
The House Beautiful
House and Garden
Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture
Keith's Magazine
Ladies' Home Journal
Living Magazine
McCall's
National Builder
Parents' Magazine
Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening
Scribner's Magazine
The Small House
Sunset Magazine
Woman's Home Companion
Western Horticultural Review (Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine)

Professional and Trade Periodicals

American Architect
American Architect and Building News
American Builder
American Carpenter and Builder
American City
American Civic and Planning Annual
American Garden
Annals of Real Estate Practice
Architectural Forum (
formerly Brickbuilder)
Architectural Record
Architectural Review and American Builder's Journal
Arts and Architecture
City Planning
Historical Garden Club of America bulletins
Historical Journal of the New England Garden History Society
House and Home
Housing
Inland Architect
Insured Mortgage Portfolio
Landscape Architecture
NAHB Builder
National Real Estate Journal
Perfect Home
Popular Home
Professional Builder
Progressive Architecture
(formerly Pencil Points)
Regional Planning Notes
Southwest Builders and Contractors
Urban Land Institute Bulletin
Western Architect

Recommended Reading:

Related National Register Bulletins

Defining Boundaries for National Register Properties

Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Properties Associated with Significant Persons

Guidelines for Evaluating and Nominating Properties That Have Achieved Significance Within the Last Fifty Years (rev. 1996)

Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning (rev. 1985)

How to Apply the National Register Criteria of Evaluation

How to Complete the National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form

How to Complete the National Register Registration Form

How to Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes

How to Prepare National Historic Landmark Nominations

Researching A Historic Property (rev. 1998).

All National Register of Historic Places Bulletins

Videotape, The Multiple Property Approach.

List of State Historic Preservation Offices

General History

Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

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Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Design for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Stilgoe, John R. Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988.

Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream, A Social History of Housing in America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.

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Alanen, Arnold R., and Robert Melnick, eds. Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. Historic Landscape Resource Manual. Nachitoches, Louisiana: author and National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, 1999.

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Baker, John Milnes. American House Styles: A Concise Guide. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Beveridge, Charles E., and Carolyn Hoffman, comps. The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm, 1857-1950 (1987). New York: National Association for Olmsted Parks, 1987.

Birnbaum, Charles A., ed. The Landscape Universe: Historic Designed Landscapes in Context. Wave Hill, New York: Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States and the National Park Service, 1994.

Birnbaum, Charles A., and Robin Karson, eds. Pioneers of American Landscape Design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

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Carley, Rachel. The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Cloues, Richard R. "Architectural History and Historic Preservation: Olmsted's Druid Hills." 11593 5, no. 2 (June 1980): 1-4.

_____. "Historic Residential Landscapes in Georgia: The Georgia Living Places Project." CRM 14, no. 6 (1991): 4-6+.

Craig, Robert W. New Jersey's Building Contracts and Mechanic Liens. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 1999.

Directory of Boston Architects, 1846-1970. Cambridge, Massachusetts: COPAR, 1984.

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Ernstein, Julie H. "Landscape Archeology and the Recent Past: A View from Bowie, Maryland." In Preserving the Recent Past 2, ed., Slaton and Foulks.

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Political and Social History

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Community Planning, Real Estate Development, and Subdivision Design

Adams, Thomas. Design of Residential Districts. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.

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Gillette, Howard, Jr. "The Evolution of Neighborhood Planning from the Progressive Era to the 1949 Housing Act." Journal of Urban History 9, no. 4 (August 1983): 421-44.

Girling, Cynthia, and Kenneth I. Helphand. Yard--Street--Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Goldfield, David R. and Blaine A. Brownell. Urban America: A History, second edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Gries, John M., and James Ford, eds. Planning for Residential Districts, vol. 1, President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. Washington, D.C.: National Capital Press, 1932.

Harris, Chauncy. "Suburbs," The American Journal of Sociology 49 (1943), 1-13.

Harris, Richard, and Peter J. Larkham, eds. Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function, London: E & FN Spon, 1999.

_____. "Industry and Residence: The Decentralization of New York City, 1900-1940," Journal of Historical Geography 19, 2 (1993), 169-90

_____. Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Hayden, Dolores. "Model Houses for the Millions: The Making of the American Suburban Landscape, 1820-2000." Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper, WPOODH2, 2000 (available on Lincoln Institute website; book by the same title forthcoming).

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Hise, Greg. "The Airplane and the Garden City: Regional Transformations during World War II". In World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed A Nation, ed. Donald Albrecht. Cambridge: MIT Press and National Building Museum, 1995.

_____. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth Century Metropolis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Hoffman, Steven J. "'A Plan of Quality ': The Development of Mt. Lebanon, a 1920's Automobile Suburb," Journal Of Urban History 18, 2 (1992), 141-81.

Hoyt, Homer. The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities. Washington, D.C.:GPO, 1939.

Hubbard, Henry V., and Theodora Kimball. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design., 1917, rev. ed., 1929. Boston: Hubbard Educational Trust, 1967.

_____. Our Cities Today and Tomorrow: A Survey of Planning and Zoning Progress in the United States.

Hubbard, Henry V. Report of the United States Housing Corporation, vol. 2. Houses, Site-Planning, Utilities. United States Department of Labor, War Emergency Construction. Washington, DC: GPO, 1919.

Hubbard, H. V. Influence of Topography on the Layout of Subdivisions." Landscape Architecture 18, no. 3 (April 1928): 188-99.

Kane, Kevin David, and Thomas L. Bell. "Suburbs for a Labor Elite," Geographical Review .75 (1985), 319-34.

Keating, Anne D. Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.

Kelly, Barbara. Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Klaus, Susan L. A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press with the Library of American Landscape History, 2001.

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Kostof, Spiro. City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.

Krueckeberg, Donald, ed. Introduction to Planning History in the United States. Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research, 1983.

Langdon, Philip. A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburbs. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

Lautner, Harold. Subdivision Regulations: An Analysis of Land Subdivision Practices. Chicago: Public Adminstration Service, 1941.

Levee, Arleyn. "The Olmsted Brothers' Residential Communities: A Preview of a Career Legacy." In The Landscape Universe: Historic Designed Landscapes in Context, ed. Charles Birnbaum, Wave Hill, New York: National Park Service and Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States, 1993, 29-48.

Loeb, Carolyn S. Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Lovelace, Eldridge. Harland Bartholomew: His Contributions to American Urban Planning. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1993.

McClelland, Linda Flint. "Suburban Landscapes: The Federal Housing Administration's Principles for Neighborhood Planning and the Design of Small Houses." National Park Service, 2001 (www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/01workshop/sub_landsc.htm)

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Monchow, Helen C. Use of Deed Restrictions in Subdivision Development. Chicago: Institute for Research in Land Economics, 1928.

Mott, Seward H. "Land Planning in the FHA" 1933-44." Insured Mortgage Portfolio 8, no. 4 (1944): 12-14.

_____. "The Federal Housing Administration and Subdivision Planning." Architectural Record 19 (April 1936), 257-63.

Mott, Seward, Max Wehrly, and Harold Lautner, eds. Community Builder's Handbook. Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, Community Builders' Council, 1947.

National Association of Home Builders. Home Builders Manual for Land Development. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: National Association of Home Builders, 1950.

Nolen, John. New Towns for Old: Achievements in Civic Improvement in Some American Small Towns and Neighborhoods. Boston: Marshall Jones, 1927.

Newton, Norman, T. Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.

Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1995.

Parsons, Kermit C. "Collaborative Genius: The Regional Planning Association of America." Journal of American Planning Association 60, no. 4 (Autumn, 1994): 462-82.

Perry, Clarence Arthur. "The Neighborhood Unit." Monograph One, In Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs, vol.7, Neighborhood and Community Planning. New York: New York Regional Plan Association, 1929.

Peterson, Jon A. "The City Beautiful Movement: Forgotten Origins and Lost Meanings." Journal of Urban History 2 (August 1976): 415-34.

_____. City Planning in the United States, 1840-1917: Birth of a Comprehensive Vision. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming.

Relph, Edward. The Modern Urban Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Reps, John. Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States. Princeton: Princeton University, 1965.

Ring, Gustave. "Large-Scale Housing as a Business," Insured Mortgage Portfolio 1 (June 1937): 5-7, 22.

Ring, Gustave. "Building Money: The Way to Record Breaking Rents." Architectural Forum 71 (August 1939): 135-7.

Rogers, Millard F. John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Roper, Laura Wood. F.L.O: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

Roth, Darlene. Frederick Law Olmsted's First and Last Suburbs: Riverside and Druid Hills. Bethesda, Maryland: National Association of Olmsted Parks, 1993.

Rowe, Peter G. Making a Middle Landscape. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.

Schaffer, Daniel. Garden Cities for America: The Radburn Experience. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.

______, ed. Two Centuries of American Planning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1988.

Schuyler, David. The New Urban Landscape: Redefinition of Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Schuyler, David, and Kermit Carlyle Parsons, eds. From Garden Cities to Green Cities: The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in press.

Scott, Mel. American City Planning Since 1890. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Sies, Mary Corbin. "The City Transformed." Journal of Urban History 14, no. 1 (November 1987): 81-111.

_______. "Paradise Retained: An Analysis of Persistence in Planned, Exclusive Suburbs, 1880-1980." Planning Perspectives 12 (1997): 165-91.

Southworth, Michael, and Eran Ben-Joseph. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Spann, Edward K. Designing Modern America: The Regional Planning Association of America and its Members. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996.

Stein, Clarence S. Toward New Towns for America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.

Stern, Robert A. M., ed. The Anglo-American Suburb. New York: St. Martin's, 1981. Special issue, Architectural Digest 51 (Oct./Nov. 1981).

Sussman, Carl. Planning the Fourth Migration: The Neglected Vision of the Regional Planning Association of America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976.

U.S. Department of Commerce. A City Planning Primer. Washington D.C.: GPO, 1928.

_____. A Zoning Primer. Rev. ed. Washington D.C.: GPO, 1926.

_____. National Bureau of Standards. Model Subdivision Regulations. Washington, D.C.: GPO December 1936.

_____. Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning. Model Subdivision Regulations: A Guide for Local Planning Commissions in the Preparation of Local Regulations Governing the Subdivision on Land. Washington, DC: GPO,1932.

U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency. Suggested Land Subdivision Regulations. Washington, DC: GPO, February 1952.

Vance, James E. Geography and the Urban Evolution in the San Francisco Bay. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1964.

Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston (1870-1900), second edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Weiss, Ellen. "Robert Morris Copeland's Plans for Oak Bluffs." Journal of Society of Architectural Historians 34, no. 1 (March 1975): 60-6.

Weiss, Marc A. The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Weitz, Karen J. "Utopian Place Making--The Built Environment in Arts and Crafts California." In The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life, ed. Kenneth R. Trapp. Oakland, California: Oakland Museum, and New York: Abbeville Press, 1993, 89-108.

Wood, Edith Elmer. Recent Trends in American Housing. New York: Macmillan Co., 1931.

Worley, William S. J.C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990.

Yeomans, Alfred B. City Residential Land Development. Studies in Planning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1916.

Regional Histories and Case Studies

Alanen, Arnold R., and Joseph A. Eden. Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1987.

Arnold, Joseph L. The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.

Behar, Robert M., and Maurice G. Culot. Coral Gables: An American Garden City. Paris: Editions Norma, 1997.

Bishir, Catherine W. and Lawrence S. Earley, eds. Early Twentieth-Century Suburbs in North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1985.

Buder, Stanley. Pullman: An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Burns, Leigh, et al. Atlanta Housing 1944 to 1965. Case Studies in Historic Preservation. Atlanta: Georgia State University, 2001, <>.

Candee, Richard. Atlantic Heights: A World War I Shipbuilder's Community. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: P.E. Randall, 1985.

Candee, Richard M., and Greer Hardwicke. "Early Twentieth-Century Reform Housing by Kilham and Hopkins, Architects of Boston." Winterthur Portfolio 22, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 47-80.

Cautley, Marjorie Sewell. "Planting at Radburn." Landscape Architecture 21, no. 1 (October 1930), 23-29.

Chase, Susan Mulchahey, David L. Ames, and Rebecca Siders. Suburbanization in the Vicinity of Wilmington, Delaware, 1880-1950 +/-: A Historic Context. Newark, Delaware: Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering, University of Delaware, 1993.

Child, Stephen, "Colonia Solana; A Subdivision on the Arizona Desert." Landscape Architecture 19, no. 1 (October 1928), 6-13.

Civic Association of Hollin Hills. Hollin Hills: Community of Vision: A Semicentennial History, 1949-1999. Alexandria, Virginia: author, 2000.

Contosta, David R. Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000: Frontier Town to Edge City. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999.

_____. Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.

Davies, Jane B. "Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey." Antiques 107: I (Jan. 1975): 142-58.

Ebner, Michael H. Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Edel, Matthew, and Elliot D. Sclar and Daniel Luria. Shaky Palaces: Homeownership and Social Mobility in Boston's Suburbanization. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

Folpe, Emily. Short History of Washington Square. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming.

Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Hise, Greg. "Home-Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles: The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region." Journal of Urban History 19, no. 2 (February, 1993): 95-125.

Hoffman, Steven J. "'A Plan of Quality': The Development of Mt. Lebanon, a 1920's Automobile Suburb," Journal Of Urban History 18, no. 2 (1992): 141-81.

Hovinen, Gary R. "Suburbanization in Greater Philadelphia 1880-1941." Journal of Historical Geography 11, no. 2 (April 1985): 174-95.

Johnson, Marilyn S. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Knepper, Cathy D. Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Kratt, Mary Norton, and Thomas Hanchett. Legacy: The Myers Park Story. Charlotte, N.C.: Myers Park Foundation, 1986.

Krim, Arthur, "Los Angeles and the Anti-Tradition of the Suburban City." Journal of Historical Geography 18, January 1992: 121-38.

Lampl, Elizabeth Jo, and Kimberly Prothro Williams. Chevy Chase: A Home Suburb for the Nation's Capital. Annapolis: Maryland Historical Trust Press, 1998.

Little, M. Ruth. "The Other Side of the Tracks: The Middle-Class Neighborhoods That Jim Crow Built in Early Twentieth Century North Carolina." In Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture VII: Exploring Everyday Landscapes, ed. Annmarie Adams and Sally McMurry. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997, 268-80.

MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915. Portland, Oregon: Georgian Press, 1976.

Marsh, Margaret Sammartino. "Suburbanization and the Search for Community: Residential Decentralization in Philadelphia, 1880-1900," Pennsylvania History 44 (April 1977): 99-116.

Martin, Judith, and David Lanegran. The Residential Districts of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Mattingly, Paul H. Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Menhinick, Howard K. "Riverside Sixty Years Later." Landscape Architecture 22, no. 2 (1932): 109-17.

Miller, Roger, and Joseph Siry. "The Emerging Suburb: West Philadelphia, 1850-1880," Pennsylvania History 47, April 1980, 99-145.

Miller, Zane L. Suburb, Neighborhood and Community in Park Forest, Ohio, 1935-1976. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.

Nicolaides, Becky M. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-class Surburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965, 2002.

Olmsted, Vaux and Company. Preliminary Report upon the Proposed Suburban Village at Riverside (1868). Reprinted in "Riverside, Illinois: A Residential Neighborhood Designed Over Sixty Years Ago," ed. Theodora Kimball Hubbard. Landscape Architecture 21, no. 4 (July 1931), 268-69.

Prosser, Daniel. "Chicago and the Bungalow Boom of the late 1920s," Chicago History 10, Summer 1981, 86-95.

Randall, Gregory C. America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Schwartz, Joel and Daniel, Prosser, eds. Cities in the Garden State: Essays in the Urban and Suburban History of New Jersey. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 1977.

Sehr, Timothy. "Three Gilded Age Suburbs of Indianapolis: Irvington, Brightwood, and Woodruff Place," Indiana Magazine of History 77, no. 4 (1981).

Simmons-Henry, Linda, and Linda Harris Edmisten. Culture Town: Life in Raleigh's African American Communities. Raleigh, North Carolina: Raleigh Historic Districts Commission, 1993.

Starr, S. Frederick. Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans. Rev. ed., Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, c1999.

Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.

White, Dana F., and Victor A. Kramer, eds. Olmsted South: Old South Critic--New South Planner. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.

Wiese, Andrew. "Places of Our Own: Suburban Black Towns before 1960." Journal of Urban History 19, 3 (1992), 47-51.

Wilson, Richard Guy. "Idealism and the Origin of the First American Suburb: Llewellyn Park, New Jersey." The American Art Journal, 11:4 (Oct. 1979): 79-90.

Wilson, William H. The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1964.

Wilson, William H. Hamilton Park--A Planned Black Community in Dallas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Wray, Diane. Arapahoe Acres: An Architectural History, 1949-1957. Englewood, Colorado: Wraycroft, 1997.

Zunz, Oliver. The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Transportation, Utilities, and Public Parks

Bachrach, Julia Sniderman. City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Center for American Places, 2001.

Baldassare, Mark. Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. Berkeley: University of California, 1987.

Cigliano, Jan, and Sarah Bradford Landau, eds. The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994.

Davis, Timothy. "Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, D.C.: The Evolution of a Contested Urban Landscape." Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly 19, no. 2 (April-June 1999).

Finch, Christopher. Highways to Heaven: The Autobiography of America. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

Flink, James J. American Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.

_____. The Automobile Age. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.

_____. The Car Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975.

Foster, Mark S. From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900-1940. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

Hugill, Peter J. "Good Roads and the Automobile in the United States 1880-1929." Geographical Review 72, no. 3 (July 1982): 332-49.

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. The Gas Station in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Kowsky, Francis R. "Municipal Parks and City Planning: Frederick Law Olmsted's Buffalo Park and Parkway System." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 46 (March 1987): 49-64.

Labatut, Jean and Wheaton J., Lane, eds., Highways in Our National Life: A Symposium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.

Leach, Sara Amy. "Fifty Years of Parkway Construction In and Around the Nation's Capital." In Roadside America: The Automobile in Design and Culture, ed. Jan Jennings. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press and the Society for Commercial Archeology, 1990.

Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997. Reprint, New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Martin, Albro. Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection and Rebirth of a Vital American Force. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

McShane, Clay, and Joel A. Tarr. "The Centrality of the Horse in the Nineteenth Century City." In The Making of Urban America, 2nd ed., ed. Raymond A. Mohl. Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 1997.

McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

McShane, Clay, and Stanley K. Schultz. "To Engineer the Metropolis: Sewers, Sanitation, and City Planning in Late 19th century America." Journal of American History 65 (September 1978): 389-411. Also in The Making of Urban America, ed. Raymond A. Mohl. Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 1988.

Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880-1890. Environmental Series, no. 4, College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1981.

_____. Effluent America: Cities, Energy, and the Environment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.

_____. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Nolen, John, and Henry V., Hubbard. Parkways and Land Values. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937.

Nye, David E. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1990.

Ogle, Maureen. "Water Supply, Waste Disposal, and the Culture of Privatism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." In Technology and the City, ed. Mark H. Rose and Joel A. Tarr. Special Issue. Journal of Urban History 25, no. 3 (March 1999).

Peterson, Jon A. "The Impact of Sanitary Reform upon American Urban Planning, 1840-1890." Journal of Social History 13 (September 1979): 83-103.

Radde, Bruce. The Merritt Parkway. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Rae, John B. The Road and the Car in American Life. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.

_____. The American Automobile: A Brief History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Rhoads, William. "Roadside Colonial: Early American Design for the Automobile Age, 1900-1940." Winterthur Portfolio 21 (Summer-Autumn 1986): 133-52.

Rose, Mark H. Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

_____. Interstate, Express Highway Politics, 1939-1989, revised edition. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Rose, Mark. H., and Joel A. Tarr, eds. Technology and the City. Special Issue. Journal of Urban History 25, no. 3 (March 1999).

Seely, Bruce E. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Stilgoe, John R. Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Tarr, Joel A. The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1996.

_____. "From City to Suburb: The 'Moral Influence of Transportation Technology." In American Urban History, ed. Alexander B. Callow, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973, 202-12.

Tarr, Joel A., and Josef W. Konvitz. "Patterns in the Development of Urban Infrastructure." American Urbanism: A Historiographical Review, ed. Howard Gillette Jr. and Zane L. Miller. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Tunnard, Christopher, and Boris Pushkarev. Man-Made America: Chaos or Control: An Inquiry into Selected Problems of Design in the Urbanized Landscape. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1966.

Wachs, Martin, and Margaret Crawford. The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, Daily Urban Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Wilson, William H. The City Beautiful Movement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1994.

Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Zapatka, Christian. "The American Parkways: Origins and Evolution of the Park-Road." Lotus International 56: 97-128.

House Design and Production

Adamson, Paul, with Marty Arbunich and Ernie Braun. Eichler Homes: Building the California Dream. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2002.

Advertisement, National Homes Corporation, Better Homes and Gardens 33, no. 3 (March 1955), 192.

Albrecht, Donald, ed. World War II and the American Dream, Washington D.C.: National Building Museum, and Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.

Alex, William, and George B. Tatum. Calvert Vaux: Architect and Planner. New York: Ink, Inc., 1994.

"A New FHA Low Cost Housing Plan," Architectural Forum 63 (November 1935): 520-21.

"A New Policy for Housing." Architectural Forum 65 (August 1936): 150-53

Architectural Record, eds., Apartments and Dormitories. New York: F.W. Dodge, 1958.

Bacon, Mardges. Ernest Flagg: Beaux-Arts Architect and Urban Reformer. New York: The Architectural History Foundation and Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986.

Bemis, Albert Farwell. The Evolving House. 3 volumes. Cambridge, MA: Technology Press of MIT, 1936.

Berke, Deborah, and Steven Harris, eds. Architecture of the Everyday. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.

Bricker, David. "Cliff May," in Toward a Simpler Life: Arts and Crafts Architects of California, ed. Robert Winter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, 283-90.

Brooks, H. Allen, Jr. The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries. New York: W.W. Norton, 1972 and 1976 (paperback), reissued 1996.

Brooks, H. Allen, Jr. "The Early Work of the Prairie Architects," Journal of Society of Architectural Historians 19, no. 1 (March 1960): 2-10.

Bruce, Alfred, and Harold Sandbank. A History of Prefabrication. 1943. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972.

"Buckingham: A Laboratory for Housing Management." Real Estate Record, national ed., vol. 141 (January 1938).

Buckner, Cory. A. Quincy Jones. New York: Phaidon Press, 2002.

"Building Types-Low-Rent Suburban Apartment Buildings." Architectural Record 86, no. 3 (September 1939): 88-114.

Burnham, Kelly. The Prefabrication of Houses. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1961.

Burns, John A. "Technology, and Housing: Industrialization, Standardization, and Prefabrication, 1930-1950." In Preserving the Recent Past, ed. Slaton and Shiffer.

Callender, John Hancock. Before You Buy a House. New York: Crown Books, 1953.

Cathers, David, and Alexander Vertikoff. Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition New York: Simon and Schuster and Archetype Press, 1996.

Chase, Susan Mulchahey, David L. Ames, and Rebecca Siders, Preface, Suburbanization in the Vicinity of Wilmington, Delaware, 1880-1950+/-: A Historic Context. Newark, Del.: Center for Historic Architecture and Design, June 1992.

Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. The American Family Home, 1800-1960. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

_____. "Domestic Architecture as an Index to Social History: The Romantic Revival and the Culture of Domesticity in America, 1840-1870." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 7 (1976): 33-56.

Cohen, Lizabeth. "Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885-1915," Journal of American Culture, 3: 4 (1980), 762-63, 770.

_____. "An Early FHA Experiment-A Forgotten Chapter in Housing History." Mortgage Banker 38, no. 8 (May 1978): 86-88.

_____. American Housing: Problems and Prospects. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1944.

_____. Housing for Defense: A Review of the Role of Housing in Relation to America's Defense and a Program for Action. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1940.

"Community Development Advantages Demonstrated by Tribune." New York Tribune, September 9, 1923.

Cooledge, Harold N., Jr. Samuel Sloan: Architect of Philadelphia, 1815-1884. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Cromley, Elizabeth Collins. Alone Together: A History of New York's Early Apartments. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Cromley, Elizabeth Collins, and Carter Hudgins, eds. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture V: Gender, Class, and Shelter: Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Davies, Jane B. "Davis and Downing: Collaborators in the Picturesque." In Prophet with Honor: The Career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852, ed. George B. Tatum and Elisabeth B. MacDougall. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1989.

Dean, John P., and Simon Breines. The Book of Houses. New York: Crown Publishers, 1946.

"Defense Housing in Brief Retrospect: The Aims and Achievements of Certain Housing Agencies-A Symposium." Landscape Architecture 33, no. 1 (October 1942): 14-19.

Dietsch, Deborah K. Classic Modern: Mid-Century Modern at Home. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

Ditto, Jerry, Marvin Wax, and Lanning Stern. Design for Living: Eichler Homes. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.

Doan, Mason C. American Housing Production, 1880-2000, Lanham, New Jersey: University Press of America, 1996.

Domer, Dennis. "Escaping the City: New Deal Housing and Gustave Ring's Garden Apartment Villages." In Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams, ed. Malcolm Quantrill and Bruce Webb. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993, 65-90.

Duchscherer, Paul, and Douglas Keister. The Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Home. New York: Penguin Studio, 1995.

_____. Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Interior. New York: Penguin Studio, 1997.

Federal Housing Administration. Successful Subdivisions. Land Planning Bulletin No.1. Washington, DC: GPO, 1940.

_____. The FHA Story in Summary, 1934-1959. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1959.

_____. Rental Housing Division. "Architectural Bulletins." Washington, D.C.:FHA, 1940.

_____. Recent Developments in Building Construction. technical bulletin, Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1940.

Fetters, Thomas T. The Lustron House: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2002.

Fish, Gertrude S. The Story of Housing. New York: Macmillan, 1979.

Fisher, Oscar. "Buckingham: Housing Laboratory," Architectural Record 83 (January, 1938).

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Other Suburban Property Types

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Yard Design and Gardening

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_____. California Gardens: Creating a New Eden. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.

_____. "Westward Expansion". In Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America, ed. Walter T. Punch. Boston: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Bulfinch Press, 1992, 110-11.

Tankard, Judith B. The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman. New York: Sagapress and Harry Abrams, 1996.

Tatum, George B. and Elisabeth B. MacDougall, eds. Prophet with Honor: The Career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1989.

______. "Introduction to the Dover Edition," Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, Seventh Edition. New York: Orange Judd, 1865. Reprinted as Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture. A.J. Downing. New York: Dover Publications, 1991. v-xxii.

Teyssot, Georges, ed. The American Lawn--Surface of Everyday Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Architectural Press, with Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1999.

Thornton, Sally Bullard. Daring to Dream: The Life of Hazel Wood Waterman. San Diego Historical Society, 1987.

Tishler, William H., ed. Midwestern Landscape Architecture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Tishler, William H. and Virginia Luckhardt. "H.W.S. Cleveland, Pioneer Landscape Architect to the Upper Midwest." Minnesota History, Fall 1985.

Treib, Marc. "Thomas Church, Garrett Eckbo, and the Postwar California Garden." In Preserving the Recent Past 2, ed. Deborah Slaton and William G. Foulks. Washington, D.C.: Historic Preservation Education Foundation, Association for Preservation Technology, and National Park Service, 2000.

_____. The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.

Treib, Marc, and Dorothy Imbert, eds. Special Issue, Thomas Church. Studies in the History of Gardens and the Designed Landscape, 20, no. 2 (April-June 2000).

Treib, Marc, and Dorothy Imbert. Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Volkman, Nancy J. "Landscape Architecture on the Prairie: The Work of H.W.S. Cleveland." Kansas History, summer 1987.

Weitz, Karen. "Utopian Place Making: The Built Environment in Arts and Crafts California." In The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life, ed. Kenneth R. Trapp. Oakland, California: Oakland Museum, and New York: Abbeville Press, 1993, 89-108.

Westmacott, Richard. African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

_____. "Pattern and Practice in Traditional African-American Gardens in Rural Georgia." Landscape Journal 10, no. 2 (1991): 87-104.

Woodburn, Elisabeth. "American Horticultural Books." In Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America, ed. Walter T. Punch. Boston: Massachusetts Horticultural Society and Bulfinch Press, 1992, 241-59.

"Would Landscaping Help Your Grounds," New York Tribune, September 9, 1923.

Wright, Gwendolyn. "Sweet and Clean: The Domestic Landscape in the Progressive Era." Landscape 20, no. 1 (October 1975): 38-43.

Yoch, James J. Landscaping the American Dream: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972. New York: Sagapress and Abrams, 1989.

Selected Pattern Books, Landscape Guides, and House Catalogs (Reprints and Recent Editions)

Aladdin Company. Aladdin Homes "Built in a Day" Catalog No. 29. 1917. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1995.

Barber, George F., and Company. The Cottage Souvenir No. 2. 1892. Reprint, with an introduction by Michael A. Tomlan, Watkins Glen, New York: American Life Foundation, 1982.

Beecher, Catharine E., and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman's Home. 1869. Reprint, with an introduction by Joseph Van Why, Hartford: Stowe-Day Foundation, 1975.

Church, Thomas D. Gardens Are for People: How to Plan for Outdoor Living. 3rd ed. Revised by Grace Hall and Michael Laurie, Berkeley: University of California, 1995.

Church, Thomas. Your Private World. San Francisco: Chronicle Publishing, 1962.

Cleaveland, Henry W., William Backus, and Samuel D. Backus. Village and Farm Cottages: A Victorian Style Book. 1856. Reprint of Village and Farm Cottages: The Requirements of American Village Homes, with an introduction by David Schuyler, Watkins Glen, New York: American Life Foundation, 1982.

Cleveland, H.W.S. Landscape Architecture as Applied to the Wants of the West. 1873. Reprint, with an introduction by Daniel Nadenicek and Lance M. Neckar, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, 2001.

Comstock, William Phillips, and Clarence Eaton Schermerhorn. Bungalows, Camps and Mountain Houses. Rev. ed., 1915. Reprint, with an introduction by Tony P. Wrenn, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1990.

Copeland, Robert Morris. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture and Book of Landscape Gardening. 1866. Reprint, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, forthcoming.

_____. The Architecture of Country Houses, Including Designs for Cottages, and Farm-houses, and Villas. 1850. Reprint, with an introduction by J. Stewart Johnson, New York: Dover Publications, 1969.

_____. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. 9th ed., 1875. Reprint, Little Compton, Rhode Island: Theophrastus Publishers, 1977.

Downing, Andrew Jackson. Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture. 7th ed., 1865. Reprint of Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, with an introduction by George B. Tatum, New York: Dover Publications, 1991.

_____. Rural Essays. 1894. Reprint, New York: DaCapo Press, 1974.

_____. Victorian Cottage Residences. 1873. Reprint of Cottage Residences or, A Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage Villas and Their Gardens and Grounds, with a preface by Adolf K. Placzek, New York: Dover Publications, 1981.

Eckbo, Garrett. Landscape for Living. 1950. Reprint, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, forthcoming.

Ely, Helena Rutherfurd. A Woman's Hardy Garden. (1903). Reprint, with a foreword by Ann Lovejoy, New York: Macmillan, 1990.

FHA. Planning Neighborhoods for Small Houses, technical bulletin 5. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1936.

FHA. Principles of Planning Small Houses. technical bulletin 4. Rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1936.

FHA. Principles of Planning Small Houses. technical bulletin 5. Rev. ed , Washington D.C.: GPO, 1940.

Ford, James, and Katherine Morrow Ford. The Modern House in America. 1940. Reprint of Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties. New York: Dover Publications, 1989.

Fowler, Orson S. The Octagon House: A Home for All. 1853. Reprint of A Home for All, or the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building, with an introduction by Madeleine B. Stern, New York: Dover Publications, 1973.

Gordon-Van Tine Company. 117 House Designs of the Twenties. 1923. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1992.

Hegemann, Werner, and Elbert Peets. The American Vitruvius: An Architects' Handbook of Civic Art. 1922. Reprint, with an introduction by Alan J. Plattus, preface by Leon Krier, and introductory essay by Christiane Crasemann Collins, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988.

Holly, Henry Hudson. Holly's Picturesque Country Seats. 1863. Reprint of Holly's Country Seats and Modern Dwellings, with an introduction by George B. Tatum, New York: Dover Publications, 1993.

Howard, Ebenezer. Garden Cities of Tomorrow. 1898. Reprint. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1965.

Hubbard, Henry V., and Theodora Kimball. Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design. New York: Macmillan, 1929. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1974.

Hubbard, Theodora Kimball, and Henry Vincent Hubbard. Our Cities Today and Tomorrow: A Survey of Planning and Zoning Progress in the United States. 1929. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1974.

Hutcheson, Martha Brookes. The Spirit of the Garden. 1923. Reprint, with an introduction by Rebecca Warren Davidson, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of Landscape History, 2000.

Jones, Robert T., ed. Authentic Small Houses of the Twenties. 1929. Reprint of Small Homes of Architectural Distinction: A Book of Suggested Plans Designed by The Architects' Small House Service Bureau, Inc., New York: Dover Publications, 1987.

Keeler, Charles. The Simple Home. 1904. Reprint, Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1979.

Miller, Wilhelm. Prairie Spirit of Landscape Gardening. 1915. Reprint, with an introduction by Christopher Vernon, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, 2001.

Nolen, John. New Towns for Old. 1927. Reprint, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, forthcoming.

Palliser, Charles, and George Palliser. The Palliser's Late Victorian. Reprint, with an introduction by Michael A. Tomlan, Watkins Glen, New York: American Life Foundation, 1978.

_____. Palliser's Model Homes. 1878. Reprint, with a foreword by Kermit L. Darrow, Felton, Calif.: Glenwood Publishers, 1972.

Parsons, Samuel Jr. The Art of Landscape Architecture. 1915. Reprint, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, forthcoming.

Radford Architectural Company. Radford's Artistic Bungalows: The Complete 1908 Catalog. 1908. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1997.

Reed, Samuel Burrage. Victorian Dwellings for Village and Country. 1885. Reprint of Dwellings for Village and Country, New York: Dover Publications, 1999.

Roberts, Edith A., and Elsa Rehmann. American Plants for American Gardens. 1929. Reprint, with foreword by Darrel G. Morrison, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Scott, Frank J. Victorian Gardens: The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds. 1870. Reprint of Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds, with an introduction by David Schuyler, Watkins Glen, New York: American Life Foundation, 1982.

Sears, Roebuck and Company. Sears, Roebuck Catalog of Houses, 1926: An Unabridged Reprint. 1926. Reprint of 1926 Catalog of Houses, New York: Dover Publications, 1991.

Shoppell, R.W. et al. Turn-of-the-Century Houses, Cottages, and Villas. Reprint of selections from Building Designs (ca. 1890) and Modern Houses (1890 and 1900), with a publisher's note, New York: Dover Publications, 1983.

Simonds, Ossian Cole. Landscape-Gardening. 1920. Reprint, with an introduction by Robert E. Grese, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, 2000.

Smith, Henry Atterbury, comp. 500 Small Houses of the Twenties. 1923. Reprint of The Books of A Thousand Homes: Volume One, New York: Dover Publications, 1990.

Stickley, Gustav, ed. Craftsman Bungalows: 59 Homes from "The Craftsman." Reprint of selections from The Craftsman published from 1901 to 1916, with an introduction by Alan Weissman, New York: Dover Publications, 1988.

. Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Furnishings of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. 2nd ed., 1909. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1979.

. More Craftsman Homes. 1912. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications 1982.

Sunset Magazine, ed. Sunset Western Ranch Houses. 1946. Reprint, Santa Monica: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1999.

_____. Western Ranch Houses by Cliff May. 1958. Reprint, Santa Monica: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1997.

Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. 6th impression. 1919. Reprint, with a new preface by Andres Duany and new introduction by Walter Creese, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.

Vaux, Calvert. Villas and Cottages: The Great Architectural Style-Book of the Hudson River School. 2nd ed., 1864. Reprint of Villas and Cottages: A Series of Designs Prepared for Erection in the United States, New York: Dover Publications, 1970.

von Holst, Hermann Valentin. Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period. 1913. Reprint of Modern American Homes, New York: Dover Publications, 1982.

Waugh, Frank. Book of Landscape Gardening. 1926. Reprint, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press and Library of American Landscape History, forthcoming.

Weidenmann, Jacob. Victorian Landscape Gardening: A Facsimile of Jacob Weidenmann's Beautifying Country Homes. 1870. Reprint of Beautifying Country Homes, with an introduction by David Schuyler, Watkins Glen, New York: American Life Foundation, 1978.

Wheeler, Gervase. Homes for the People in Suburb and Country. 1855. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Royal Barry Wills Associates. Houses for Good Living. Revised and expanded edition. New York:.Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1993.

Wilson, Henry L. California Bungalows of the Twenties. n.d. Reprint of A Short Sketch of the Evolution of the Bungalow: From Its Primitive Crudeness to its Present State of Artistic Beauty and Cozy Convenience, New York: Dover Publications, 1993.

Dissertations

Burns, Elizabeth Kates. "The Process of Suburban Residential Development: The San Francisco Peninsula, 1860-1970." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.

Chase, Susan Mulchahey. "The Process of Suburbanization and the Use of Restrictive Deed Covenants as Private Zoning, Wilmington, Delaware, 1900-1941." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1995.

Checkoway, Barry N. "Suburbanization and Community: The Postwar Development and Planning of Lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1977.

Clark, James Everett. "The Impact of Transportation Technology on Suburbanization in the Chicago Region, 1830-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1977.

Clouse, Richard Ross. "Where Art is Combined with Nature: Village Improvement in Nineteenth-Century New England," Vol. I-III. Ph.D dissertation, Cornell University, 1987.

Clouser, Roger A. "The Ranch House in America," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 1984.

Flint, Barbara J. "Zoning and Residential Segregation: A Social and Physical History, 1910-1940." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1977.

Hancock, John L. "John Nolen and the American City Planning Movement." Ph.d. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1964.

Hawkins, Kenneth B. "The Therapeutic Landscape: Nature, Architecture, and Mind in Nineteenth-Century America." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1991.

Haynes, Bruce. "Constructing a Black Suburban Community: The Genesis and Development of Runyon Heights, Yonkers, New York, 1910-1990." Ph.D dissertation, City University of New York, 1994.

Hutchison, Janet Anne. "American Housing, Gender, and the Better Homes Movement, 1922-1935." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1989.

Kehler, Joel R. "A House Divided: Domestic Architecture as American Romantic Subject and Symbol." Ph.D. dissertation, Lehigh University, 1975.

Lynch, Bruce E. "Shaker Heights: The Garden Suburb in America." Ph.d. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1978.

Martin, Christopher. "Tract House Modern: A Study of Housing Design and Consumption in the Washington Suburbs, 1946-1960," Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, 1999.

Merino, James Anthony. "A Great City and Its Suburbs: Attempts to Integrate Metropolitan Boston, 1865-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1968.

Michelson, Alan R. "Towards a Regional Synthesis: The Suburban and Country Residences of William Wilson Wurster, 1922-1964." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1993.

Pardun, Carol Jean. "How the Architectural Style of the House Relates to Family Television Viewing." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1992.

Prendergast, Norma. "The Sense of Home: Nineteenth Century Domestic Architectural Reform." Ph.D dissertation, Cornell University, 1981.

Rome, Adam Ward. "Prairie Creek Hills Estates: An Environmental History of American Homebuilding, 1945-70." Ph.D dissertation, University of Kansas, 1996.

Sies, Mary Corbin. "American Country House Architecture in Context: The Suburban Ideal of Living in the East and Midwest, 1877-1917." Ph.D dissertation, University of Michigan, 1987.

Taylor, Henry Louis. "The Building of a Black Industrial Suburb: The Lincoln Heights, Ohio, Story." Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979.

Weise, Andrew. "Struggle for the Suburban Dream: African American Suburbanization Since 1916." Ph.D dissertation, Columbia University, 1993.

Wheaton, William Linous Cody. "The Evolution of Federal Housing Programs." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1953.

Wilson, Leslie. "Dark Spaces: An Account of Afro-American Suburbanization." Ph.D dissertation, City University of New York, 1991.

Theses

Bobeczko, Laura Lyn. "America Builds for Her Renter Millions: The Built Legacy of the Rental Housing Division of the Federal Housing Administration, 1935-1942." M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 1999/2000.

Bricker, David. "Built For Sale: Cliff May and the Low Cost California Ranch House." M.A. thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983.

Christgau, Eugene. "Unincorporated Communities in Cook County." M.A. thesis, University of Chicago, 1942.

Hamley, Kara Cathleen. "Cleveland's Park Allotment: Euclid Heights, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Its Designer, Ernest W. Bowditch." M.A. thesis, Cornell University, 1996.

Korff, Mary Blaine. "Stephen Child: Visionary Landscape Architect." M.A. thesis, University of Arizona, Tuscon, 1991.

Moudry, Roberta M. "Gardens, Houses, and People: The Planning of Roland Park, Baltimore." M.A. thesis, Cornell University, 1990.

Savage, Beth Lynn. "The Inception and Early Historical Development of the Planned Neighborhood Shopping Center in the Washington Area from 1930 to 1942." M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 1989.

Sechrist, Stephanie Ann. "Silver Spring, Maryland: Residential Development of a Washington Suburb, 1920 to 1935." M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 1993.

Struble, Kristie Dixon. "Hollin Hills: The Introduction of Nature into a Mid-Twentieth Century Suburb." M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1987.

Williams, Robert Luther. "Eighty Years of Subdivision Design: An Historical Evaluation of Land Planning Techniques in San Mateo County, California." M.C.P. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1952.

Zarakov, Barry. "California Planned Communities of the 1920s." M.A. thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977.

Selected Multiple Property Listings for Further Reading

Multiple Property Submission "covers" are available at (http://www.nr.nps.gov/nrcover.htm)

Apartment Hotels in Birmingham, 1900-1930, TR, Alabama

Lustron Houses in Alabama MPS, Alabama

Spanish Revival Residences in Mobile MPS, Alabama

Historic Apartment Buildings MPS, Arkansas

Historically Black Properties in Little Rock's Dunbar School Neighborhood MPS, Arkansas

Little Rock Apartment Buildings MPS, Arkansas

Educational Buildings in Phoenix MPS, Arizona

Residential Subdivisions and Architecture in Phoenix MPS, Arizona

Roosevelt Neighborhood MRA, Arizona

Bungalow Courts of Pasadena TR, California

Lilian Rice-Designed Buildings at Rancho Santa Fe MPS, California

Los Angeles Branch Library System TR

Residential Architecture of Pasadena, California, 1895-1918: The Influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement MPS

Wartime Emergency Housing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1916-1920, MPS

Parkways of the National Capital Region MPS, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia

Apartment Buildings in Washington, D.C., 1880-1945, MPS

Clubhouses of Florida's Woman's Clubs MPS

Winterhaven, Florida MPS

Lustron Houses in Georgia MPS

Shotgun Houses of Athens, Clark County, MPS, Georgia

Boise Public Schools TR, Idaho

Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR, Idaho

American Woman's League Chapter Houses TR, Illinois

Chicago Park District MPS, Illinois

Highland Park MRA, Illinois

Historic Resources of Maywood, Illinois, MPS

Hyde Park Apartment Hotels TR, Illinois

Illinois Carnegie Libraries MPS

Suburban Apartment Buildings in Evanston TR, Illinois

Apartments and Flats of Downtown Indianapolis TR, Indiana

The Bungalow and Square House: Des Moines Residential Growth and Development MPS, Iowa

Iowa Usonian Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1945-1960, MPS

Prairie School Architecture in Mason City TR, Iowa

Small Homes of Howard F. Moffitt in Iowa City and Coralville, Iowa, MPS

Suburban Development in Des Moines Between the World Wars, 1918-1941, MPS, Iowa

Towards a Greater Des Moines: Development and Early Suburbanization, ca 1880-ca 1920, MPS, Iowa

Lustron Houses of Kansas, MPS

Louisville and Jefferson County MPS, Kentucky

Historic Residential Architecture of Bangor MPS, Maine

Brookline MRA, Massachusetts

Newton MRA, Massachusetts

Stoneham MRA, Massachusetts

Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS, Massachusetts

Worcester Three-Deckers TR, Massachusetts

Residential Structures in Kansas City, Missouri, by Mary Rockwell Hook TR

St. Joseph MPS, Missouri

Armour Boulevard MRA, Missouri

Suburban Schools in Butte MPS, Montana

Nineteenth Century Terrace Houses TR, Nebraska

Lustrons in New Jersey, MPS

Operating Passenger Railroad Stations, TR, New Jersey

Multi-Unit Dwellings in Albuquerque MPS, New Mexico

Albuquerque Downtown Neighborhoods MRA, New Mexico

Twentieth Century Suburban Growth of Albuquerque MPS, New Mexico

A.T. Stewart Resources, Garden City, New York, TR

Hudson Highlands MPS, New York

Masten Neighborhood Rows TR, New York

Olmsted Parks and Parkways TR, Buffalo, New York

African-American Neighborhoods in Northeastern Winston-Salem MPS, North Carolina

Early Twentieth Century Raleigh Neighborhoods TR, North Carolina

Eastlake Houses of Ashly TR, Ohio

Hobart Welded Steel Houses TR, Ohio

Architecture of Ellis F. Lawrence MPS, Oregon

Craftsman Bungalows in Descutes County MPS, Oregon

Middle-Class Apartments in East Portland MPS, Oregon

Philadelphia Public Schools TR, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh Public Schools TR, Pennsylvania

Early Twentieth Century Schools in Puerto Rico TR

Single-Family Houses in Rhode Island MPS

Cement Construction in Richard City MPS, Tennessee

Lustron Houses in South Dakota MPS

Memphis Park and Parkway System MPS, Tennessee

Oak Ridge MPS, Tennessee

Public Schools of Memphis, 1902-1915, MPS, Tennessee

Residential Resources of Memphis MPS, Tennessee

Entrepreneurial Residences of Turn-of-the-Century Provo, Utah, TR

Perkins Addition Streetcar Suburb TR, Utah

Three-Story Apartment Buildings in Ogden, Utah, 1908-1928, MPS

Hilltop Neighborhood MPS, Washington

Olympia Residential Architecture MPS, Washington

Women's History in Olympia MPS, Washington

Ernest Flagg Stone Masonry Houses of Milwawkee County TR, Wisconsin

Public Library Facilities of Wisconsin MPS

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