Background
Schuyler, David P. was born on April 9, 1950 in Albany, New York, United States.
(In "one of the best books available on the changing physi...)
In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities.
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(Through his many books and in the pages of The Horticultu...)
Through his many books and in the pages of The Horticulturist, the nation's first journal about landscape gardening, Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852) preached a gospel of taste, promoting a naturalistic style of landscape design as the "modern" alternative to the classical geometry of the "ancient" gardens of Italy and France. Together with his longtime collaborator, Alexander Jackson Davis, Downing also contributed to an architectural revolution that sought to replace the classical revival with the Gothic revival and other romantic styles. Downing celebrated this progression not simply as a change in stylistic preference but a reflection of the nation's evolution to a more advanced state of civilization. In this compelling biography, issued in a new edition with a new preface, David Schuyler explores the origins of the tastemaker's ideas in English aesthetic theory and his efforts to adapt English principles to American climate and republican social institutions. Tracing the impulse toward a native architectural style, Schuyler also demonstrates the influence of Downing's ideas on the period's gardens and, more broadly still, analyzes the complications of class implicit in Downing's prescriptions for American society. The new edition is illustrated with more than 100 drawings, plans, and photographs.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1625341687/?tag=2022091-20
(In "one of the best books available on the changing physi...)
In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801832314/?tag=2022091-20
Schuyler, David P. was born on April 9, 1950 in Albany, New York, United States.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1979.
Professor American studies, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1979.
(Through his many books and in the pages of The Horticultu...)
(In "one of the best books available on the changing physi...)
(In "one of the best books available on the changing physi...)
Member Society of America City and Regional Planning History (president 1998-1999), Pennsylvania History Association (council), American Studies Association, Organization American Historians, Society Winterthur Fellows.
Married Marsha Sener. 1 child, Nancy.