Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century

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Index Italicized page numbers refer to illustrations. Aalborg Declaration (1994), 67 Abajo las murallas!!! (Monlau), 60 Abercrombie, Patrick, 41, 52n2, 122, 140 Adams, Thomas, 48, 49, 54n31 African Americans: “Great Migration,” 101; limited access to housing and recreation in Los Angeles, 96, 104; postwar population increase in Los Angeles, 108; segregation of recreational spaces in Los Angeles, 101–8 Alameda Park (Mexico City), 39, 50 alien species, 176n6 Aliesan, Jody, 181–82, 197–99, 199n2 allotment gardens, 5–6 Alternative Liste, 211, 218 American Association for the Scenic and Historic Transformation of the United States, 47 American City Planning Institute, 4 Anderson, Edgar, 165 antiweed ordinances. See weed ordinances Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program (U.S. Department of Energy), 181 Architettura della città, L’ (Rossi), 150 Asian Americans: immigration laws for, 102; racist coercion in Los Angeles, 101; and segregation of swimming facilities, 105 Athens Charter (Charte d’Athènes; Le Corbusier ), 137, 140, 145 athletics: conditions of fields in 1920s, 127; in London before World War II, 117, 120; in Paris, 118 Automobile Club of Southern California, 98 automobiles: in Callenbach’s Ecotopia, 183; in Contreras’s planning, 47; in Los Angeles, 98, 109; sports participation affected by, 122, 124; in Sunbelt suburbia, 109; in Wright’s Broadacre City plan, 5 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 164 Balbuena Park (Mexico City), 40, 51 ball-game fields, 125–26 Bank Holiday Act (1871), 117 Barcelona, 57–74; Cerda’s work in, 39, 60, 61, 62, 66; development in nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 59–66; ecology and society today, 66–70; Eixample, 61; football club in, 118; under Franco, 66; gentrification in, 70; industrialization in, 60, 65, 66; as Mediterranean city, 57–58, 67–71; nationalism in planning in, 10, 59; North African immigrants in, 69–70; Olympic games (1992), 57, 67, 68; Park Güell, 62, 62, 63, 65; parks in, 61, 63, 64, 67; port, 58, 58, 67; Sagrada Família, 61, 63, 65; Sustainable City exhibit (1997), 67, 68; Universal Forum of Cultures (2004), 57, 59, 68, 69 234 | Index Barcelona capital Latina: Historia de una nueva latinidad (Rubió Tudurí), 73n25 Barcelona Declaration (1995), 69 Barcelona Process, 69 Bartholomew Associates, 99 Battersea Park (London), 119, 120 Bauer, Friedrich: approach to garden design of, 79–84; holism of, 79, 82–83; on medieval buildings, 82; National Socialism compared with ideas of, 90; reactionary modernist worldview of, 10, 79, 90; Schiller Park competition entry of, 85, 86–90, 87, 88; successful competition entries of, 92n12 Bauhaus, 47, 135 beaches, segregation at Los Angeles, 102, 103–5 Bennett, Edward H., 54n33 Berlin: allotment gardens in postwar, 5; Mauerpark, 91; natural history in, 207–8; Potsdamer Platz, 220, 221, 227n55; Südgel ände nature park, 218, 219; unification of, 216, 219, 223; Unter den Linden, 39. See also Schiller Park (Berlin); West Berlin Berlin Nature Conservation Act (Berliner Naturschutzgesetz; 1979), 212, 220, 221, 223 biodiversity, sports grounds and, 126–28 biotopes, 206; anthropogenic, 210; cities as, 12, 206, 222; origin of term, 224n4; urban wastelands, 209; wasteland preservation, 217–21; West Berlin biotope mapping survey , 213–15; in West Berlin Species Protection Program, 213–17 Black Heath (London), 116–17 Bogotá, 145 Bosman, Jos, 135 Boston: City Beautiful movement in, 96; derelict streetscape, 166; Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace, 40 bowls (sport), 119 Britain. See Great Britain Broadacre City, 4–5, 21 Bruce, Charles and Willa, 104 Bruce’s Beach (Manhattan Beach, California ), 104, 105 Buffalo (New York), 159 Building Greater Sofia, 23–25, 24 Bulgaria, Western ideas adopted in, 17–18. See also Sofia (Bulgaria) Bürgerinitiativen, 211, 218 Bürgerinitiative Südgelände, 218, 226n49 Burgess, Ernest Watson, 49 Burroughs, John, 163 Callenbach, Ernest, 183, 184, 186 Calles, Plutarco Elias, 45 Can Our Cities Survive? (Sert), 136, 146, 149 Cardenas, Lázaro, 45, 46, 52, 53n26 Carranza, Venustiano, 44 cars. See automobiles Carsi, Albert, 65 Carson, Rachel, 163, 184 Casa Batlló (Barcelona), 61 Center for Urban Horticulture (University of Washington), 186 Central Park (New York City), 96 Cerdà, Idelfons, 39, 60, 61, 62, 66 Chapultepec Heights (Mexico City), 41, 42 Chapultepec Park (Mexico City), 50, 51 Charte d’Athènes (Athens Charter; Le Corbusier ), 137, 140, 145 Chicago: City Beautiful movement in, 96; increasing density of, 5; Olmsted’s South Park System, 40; “splashing meadows” in parks in, 92n10; weed control ordinance, 172–73, 179n60 Chicago School of Sociology, 49, 138, 139, 206 Chimbote (Peru), 145–46; Sert’s plan for, 146 CIAM (Congrès Internationaux...