Shaping American Democracy

1. American Democracy and Its Spaces: An Introduction
Scott M. Roulier

Part I. Primary Landscapes

2. American Pastoral: Jefferson’s Agrarian Republic
Scott M. Roulier

3. Democracy Gone Wild: Thoreau and the Wilderness Tradition
Scott M. Roulier

Part II. Rival Democratic Designs

4. Olmsted’s Public Parks: Civic-Spirited Design
Scott M. Roulier

5. Democracy and Individuality: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacres and the Burbs
Scott M. Roulier

Part III. Modernism: Promise, Problems and New Prescriptions

6. Democratic Ambivalence: Robert Moses and Modernist Urban Planning
Scott M. Roulier

7. Democracy and Civic Ecology: New Urbanism
Scott M. Roulier

Part IV. Design Portfolios: A Juried Competition

8. Democratic Designs: A Multipronged Assessment
Scott M. Roulier

9. Conclusion
Scott M. Roulier

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Democracy, Cultural Policy and Politics, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Politics