Charter of the New Urbanism, Congress of the New Urbanism, Edited by
Michael
Leccese and Kathleen McCormick, McGraw-Hill, 1999, 180 pages.
Reviewed by: M. Gordon Brown, Space Analytics, LLC, 100, Denver, CO
80206–2505.
Start Page: 145
End Page:152
Volume:10
Issue Number: 01
Year: 2002
Publication: Journal of Real Estate Literature
Abstract:
Had he lived a few decades beyond his thirty-seven years, Andrew
Jackson Downing would have had the satisfaction of seeing how pervasively
influential his books had been. He would have visited places like
Evanston, Illinois or the Hill District of St. Paul, where streets
perpetually bloom with the kind of houses described and drawn in The
Cottage Style and The Architecture of Country Houses. Within a
surprisingly short time, his books, published from 1837 to 1850,
revolutionized the design of the American house and how Americans would
expect to live.
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