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Title: Park and Recreation Structures : Administration and Basic Service Facilities : Recreational and Cultural Facilities : Overnight and Organized Camp by Albert H. Good ISBN: 1-56898-171-6 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Buildings and sites of the WPA and CCC era.
Comment: This is the best source book for the architectural projects and site concepts produced during the 1930's for the Works Projects Administration (WPA)and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Albert Good's narrative provides insight into the motivating forces that employed thousands of out of work architects, engineers, skilled craftsmen and laborers to produce projects that now form the core of our national and state park systems.
Most of the work produced under this program is enjoyed by today's tourist as the premier and most desirable destinations for outdoor experiences. Few new park facilities can duplicate the environments created by these dedicated workers on superbly selected and planned sites during the darkest days of the "Great Depression". The hand crafted, and sometimes intricately decorated, architecture and natural landscape planning evolved from talented designers and often unskilled laborers who lavished their work with love that only the lack of deadlines, the motivation of an empty stomach, a belief in the benefit for their fellow countrymen and the need to build with on site materials can produce. These buildings are truly "green buildings" before the term and recent politically correct notion became fasionable.
Any architect, engineer, conservation and environmental supporter or depression era historian can benefit from this publication which brings one in contact with a nation faced with financial ruin and the effect on the hopes and spirit of its citizens. It demonstrates that when given a chance, the work ethic that has and hopefully will always exist in this nation produces fantastic results..........that we can roll up our shirt sleeves and pull on our boots to produce marvelous and lasting accomplishments even under great adversity.
I recommend this book not just for the professionals whose vocations it represents but also for those who wish to understand the mountains that can be moved with a little sweat and perseverance.
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Title: Great Lodges of the National Parks: The Companion Book to the PBS Television Series by Christine Barnes, Fred Pfulghoft, David Morris ISBN: 0965392457 Publisher: W. W. West Inc Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Patterns from the Golden Age of Rustic Design: Park and Recreation Structuires from the 1930's by Albert H. Good ISBN: 1570983917 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Building the National Parks: The Historic Landscape Design of the National Park Service by Linda Flint McClelland ISBN: 0801855837 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service by Ethan Carr ISBN: 080326383X Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.11 |
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Title: Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 by Craig A. Gilborn, Paul Malo ISBN: 0815606265 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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