Daniel Bluestone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Bluestone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bluestone |
| SIGNATURE | BLUESTONE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Taking the Land to Make the City
Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America. By Mary P Ryan. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. x, 438 pp. $40.00.) Daniel Bluestone Daniel Bluestone Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 993–994, http…
Louis H. Sullivan’s Chicago
Through Chicago building and writing, Louis Sullivan explored the aesthetic and urban possibilities of skyscrapers, particularly their composition on urban skylines. Sullivan envisioned the skyscraper’s eclipse of the fairly uniform street-wall urbanism constituted by what he called “old single or ‘shirt front’ buildings.” In its place he promoted the skyscraper urbanism of “full four-front or all around structures.” He thus pointed the way towar…
The Food Axis
Over the past generation the focus of American architectural history has shifted from a dominant preoccupation with chronicling changes in the style and formal aesthetics of leading architects to a broader interest in the social and cultural aspects of American buildings and landscapes. American architectural history has reflected and drawn on scholarship in American history; it has, for example, adopted the conceptual frames of race, class, gend…
Living Downtown
Journal Article Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States. By Paul Groth. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xxii, 401 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-06876-9.) Get access Daniel Bluestone Daniel Bluestone University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1177–1178, https…
Constructing Chicago
Journal Article Constructing Chicago. By Daniel Bluestone. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xii, 235 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-04848-3.) Get access Ross Miller Ross Miller University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 304–305, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081098 Published: 01 June 1994
Planning the City upon a Hill
Journal Article Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630. By Lawrence W. Kennedy. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. xiv + 314 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-87023-780-2.) Get access Daniel Bluestone Daniel Bluestone Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 635, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079889 P…
The Pushcart Evil
Civic and Aesthetic Reserve
From Promenade to Park
his sense of professional frustration to his friend and colleague Frederick Law Olmsted. I get heart-sick and disgusted at times with the twaddle that passes for 'love of nature' -in the face of the evidence have everywhere that to the great mass of the so called cultivated people nature has no attraction except when aided by the merest clap traps of fashionable entertainment which the real lover of nature seeks to escape from. A year earlier Cle…
Metropolis 1890-1940
Olmsted's Boston and Other Park Places
Cleveland
"As part of the Office of Archeology and Historic preservation, Department of Interior, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documents historic engineering and industrial sites throughout the Nation. This inventory is the first step in the documentation process." -- from the Introduction
The Pushcart Evil
From Promenade to Park
his sense of professional frustration to his friend and colleague Frederick Law Olmsted. I get heart-sick and disgusted at times with the twaddle that passes for 'love of nature' -in the face of the evidence have everywhere that to the great mass of the so called cultivated people nature has no attraction except when aided by the merest clap traps of fashionable entertainment which the real lover of nature seeks to escape from. A year earlier Cle…
Planning the City upon a Hill
Journal Article Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630. By Lawrence W. Kennedy. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. xiv + 314 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-87023-780-2.) Get access Daniel Bluestone Daniel Bluestone Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 635, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079889 P…
Olmsted's Boston and Other Park Places
Cleveland
"As part of the Office of Archeology and Historic preservation, Department of Interior, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documents historic engineering and industrial sites throughout the Nation. This inventory is the first step in the documentation process." -- from the Introduction
Olmsted's Boston and Other Park Places
Metropolis 1890-1940
From Promenade to Park
his sense of professional frustration to his friend and colleague Frederick Law Olmsted. I get heart-sick and disgusted at times with the twaddle that passes for 'love of nature' -in the face of the evidence have everywhere that to the great mass of the so called cultivated people nature has no attraction except when aided by the merest clap traps of fashionable entertainment which the real lover of nature seeks to escape from. A year earlier Cle…
Civic and Aesthetic Reserve
The Pushcart Evil
Planning the City upon a Hill
Journal Article Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630. By Lawrence W. Kennedy. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. xiv + 314 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-87023-780-2.) Get access Daniel Bluestone Daniel Bluestone Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 635, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079889 P…
Constructing Chicago
Journal Article Constructing Chicago. By Daniel Bluestone. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xii, 235 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-04848-3.) Get access Ross Miller Ross Miller University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 304–305, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081098 Published: 01 June 1994
Living Downtown
Journal Article Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States. By Paul Groth. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xxii, 401 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-06876-9.) Get access Daniel Bluestone Daniel Bluestone University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1177–1178, https…
The Food Axis
Over the past generation the focus of American architectural history has shifted from a dominant preoccupation with chronicling changes in the style and formal aesthetics of leading architects to a broader interest in the social and cultural aspects of American buildings and landscapes. American architectural history has reflected and drawn on scholarship in American history; it has, for example, adopted the conceptual frames of race, class, gend…
Louis H. Sullivan’s Chicago
Through Chicago building and writing, Louis Sullivan explored the aesthetic and urban possibilities of skyscrapers, particularly their composition on urban skylines. Sullivan envisioned the skyscraper’s eclipse of the fairly uniform street-wall urbanism constituted by what he called “old single or ‘shirt front’ buildings.” In its place he promoted the skyscraper urbanism of “full four-front or all around structures.” He thus pointed the way towar…
Taking the Land to Make the City
Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America. By Mary P Ryan. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. x, 438 pp. $40.00.) Daniel Bluestone Daniel Bluestone Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Pages 993–994, http…
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