Super-Scenic Motorway (eBook)

A Blue Ridge Parkway History

Anne Mitchell Whisnant (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2006
464 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-9842-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "e;Godsend for the needy,"e; built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.10.2006
• Zusatzinfo: 51 illus., 7 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: American Indian Federation • Appalachia • Appalachian culture • Arno B. Cammerer • Asheville, North Carolina • Blue Ridge Parkway • Bureau of Indian Affairs • Bureau of Public Roads • Cahterine Bauer • Civilian Conservation Corps • Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians • Eastern National Park-to-Park Highway • Eminent domain • Environmental history • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Fred Bauer • Fred L. Weede • George Stephens • Good Roads Movement • Grandfather Mountain • Great Smoky Mountains National Park • Harlan P. Kelsey • Harold L. Ickes • Harry F. Bird • Heriot Clarkson • highway building • historic interpretation • historic preservation • historic sites • Hugh MacRae • Hugh Morton • Indian New Deal • Jarrett Blythe • john collier • josephus daniels • Josiah Bailey • Kenneth McKellar • Knoxville, Tennessee • Landscape • Landscape architecture • land use • Linn Cove Viaduct • Linville, North Carolina • Little Switzerland • Luther H. Hodges • Mabry Mill • Mission 66 • National Park Service • Native Americans • New Deal • North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission • parkways • Peaks of Otter, Virginia • Public Works Administration • Regional Planning • R. Getty Browning • Roanoke, Virginia • Robert L. Doughton • Sam P. Weems • Shenandoah National Park • Skyline Drive • Stanley W. Abbott • Tennessee Valley Authority • terry sanford • timbering • Tourism • Yonahlossee Trail
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-9842-2 / 0807898422
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-9842-0 / 9780807898420