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Eastern Montana.

The Geography of Nowhere - I

Read each chapter and peruse the accompanying resources.

01 Scary Places

02 American Space

• Williams, Roger. A Plea for Religious Liberty, 1644. (Consitiution Society).
• Rensselaerswyck, The People of Colonial Albany, New York State Museum (re: patroonship)
• William Penn Plans the City, American Studies, UVA
• Fifth Amendment (Rights of Persons), Find Law
  • Overview and Public Use
  • Just Compensation
  • When Property is Taken
• Fourteenth Amendment (Rights Guaranteed, Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection), Find Law.
• Chapter II: Of Individualism in Democratic Countries. De Tocqueville. Alexis. Democracy in America Part II, translator Henry Reeve.

03 Life on the Gridiron

• The Northwest Ordinance, 13 July 1787. An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio. Avalon Project, Yale University
• Homestead Act of 1862, May 20, 1862. Avalon Project, Yale University
• Harvey, Francis (In preparation) A Primer for Future Users of GIS. Chapter 5: Locational and Coordinate Systems. PDF file. Draft available on-line for Representing Place: Maps and Mapmaking course, University of Minnesota, spring 2006.
• Rationale for Founding the Georgia Colony Under James Olgethorpe, 1733. Library of COngress.
• William Penn Plans the City [Philadelphia], William Penn, by Tuomi J. Forrest, University of Virginia.
• Original Plan of Washington, D.C., American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
• Commissioners' Plan of 1811 [New York City], Wikipedia
• Central Park History, Central Park Conservancy
• Zoning, Wikipedia (and for later reference on Planning, Zoning, Overlay Zoning, Incentive Zoning)

04 Eden Updated

• Romanticism, Wikipedia
• The McCormick Family and their Mechanical Reaper, McCormick Museum
• American Transcendentalism by Ann Matthews Woodlief, English Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Hudson River School, Wikipedia
• Andrew Jackson Downing, Wikipedia
• Llewellyn Park, New Jersey
• Riverside, Chicago, Illinois.

05 Yesterday's Tomorrow

• World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath by Julie K. Rose, University of Virginia
• City Beautiful, WIkipedia
• The City Beautiful Movement (referce to Washington, DC), University of Virginia
• Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. The City Beautiful. The Builder 101 (July 7, 1911):15 17.
• Albert Kahn, Wikipedia
• Adolf Loos, Wikipedia
• Bauhaus
• Virtual Visit to the 1925 Paris Exposition Des Arts Décoratifs, Retropolis
• LeCorbusier and the Radiant City Contra: True Urbanity and the Earth by Rachel Kennedy, University of Kentucky
• The Great Depression and the New Deal, HIST 1302, Kyle Wilkison, Collin County Community College
• Modernism's Second Generation in Modernism, Wikipedia