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""Bright, cheerful houses, well arranged, well trimmed lawns, hedging carefully cut... distinctly joyous," wrote architectural critic Herbert Croly in 1914 about the Forest Hills Gardens community in Queens, New York. The New York Tribune agreed, reporting that the place was a "modern Garden of Eden, a fairy tale too good to be true."".
"Conceived as an experiment that would apply the new "science" of city planning to a suburban setting, Forest Hills Gardens was created by the Russell Sage Foundation to provide housing for middle-class commuters as an alternative to cramped flats in New York City. Although it has long been recognized as one of the most influential planned communities in the United States, this is the first time Forest Hills Gardens has been the subject of a book.".
"Susan L. Klaus's illustrated history chronicles the creation of the 142-acre development from its inception in 1909 through its first two decades, offering critical insights into American planning history, landscape architecture, and the social and economic forces that shaped housing in the Progressive Era."--BOOK JACKET.
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Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Garden
2004, Library of American Landscape History
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1952620082 9781952620089
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Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
June 20, 2002, University of Massachusetts Press
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"MAROONED IN GOPHER PRAIRIE, Minnesota, in 1912, newly wed Carol Kennicott dreams of transforming "the unsparing unapologetic ugliness and the rigid straightness" of her village into something like the new "fairy-book suburb" of Forest Hills Gardens on Long Island, pictures of which had already found their way to her tiny public library on the American plain."
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