Historic
Fairmount Park Art Association. The Fairmount Parkway: A Pictorial Record of Development From its First Incorporation in the City Plan of 1904 to the Completion of the Main Drive from City Hall to Fairmount Park in 1919. Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, PA.; 1919. Includes fold-put plans, sections and watercolor renderings of parkway proposals. Most plans and sketches are by Jacques Gréber.
Nolen, John and Henry V. Hubbard. Parkways and Land Values. Harvard City Planning Studies, vol. 11. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1937. The authors hoped that parkways would "become the framework for a new town-and-country community by providing a practical means for a better distribution of population." The study focuses on parkways in Boston, MA; Kansas City, MO; and Westchester County, NY. It advocated the creation of parkways elsewhere in the country. Illustrated.
Regional Planning Federation of the Philadelphia Tri-State District. The Federation, Philadelphia, PA.; 1932. The regional plan of the Philadelphia Tri-State District; the report was formulated and compiled by sub-committees of the Technical Advisory Committee and the Federation staff, in collaboration with the Executive Committee. 589 p. illus., maps, cross sections, charts, tables
Contemporary
Andropogon Associates, Ltd. Philadelphia, PA (Master Planners); LANDSCAPES, Westport, CT (Historic Resources) Master Plan for Louisville's Olmsted Parks and Parkways: A Guide to Renewal and Management. The Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Inc., in conjunction with the Louisville and Jefferson County Parks Department. June 1994. Chapter Six addresses the 14.5-miles of Parkways in Louisville. Tree protection care and replacement was addressed, as were lighting and utilities, pedestrian and bikeway accommodations, furnishings, signage, and private encroachments.
Bassuk, Nina; Jason Grabosky; Peter Trowbridge, FASLA; and James Urban, ASLA, "Structural Soil: An Innovative Medium Under Pavement That Improves Street Tree Vigor," in [chapter] "5. Technical Innovations in landscape Architecture," 1998 Annual Meeting Proceedings of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Edited by Diane L. Scheu. American Society of Landscape Architects, Washington, D.C., 1998, p. 183-5. This paper reports on soil material that may help some urban tree planting problems.
Couch, Sarah M. "Trees in Line for Conservation" Landscape Design no 214 (Oct. 1992): pp. 43-46. History of tree allées. Issues of age and maintenance; recommendations for study, analysis, management, replanting. Illustrated.
Grabosky, Jason and Nina Bassuk, "Progress on the Development of an Urban Tree Soil Specification." Urban Horticulture Institute, Cornell University, October 1995. This paper reports on the development of a material that provides both a load bearing pavement base material and also a rooting medium for street trees.
Leach, Sara Amy. "Documenting Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway." CRM 16, no. 3 (1993): pp. 5-7. Pilot project producing drawings, photographs and written narratives. Development of digitized mapping and interpretive drawings from photogrammetric photographs. Illus.
Leach, Sara Amy. "HABS/HAER Documents Automotive Corridors." CRM 16, no. 6 (1993): pp. 26-27. Documentation of parks roads, parkways and urban thoroughfares including Rock Creek Parkway, George Washington Memorial Parkway, L'Enfant-McMillan Plan, Washington, DC, and the Merritt Parkway, Conn.
Pollock-Ellwand, Nancy. "Heritage Advocacy in the Cultural Landscape." APT Bulletin 24, no. 3 & 4. (1992): pp. 71-78. Preservation planning, advocacy for 40,000 roadside trees in Canadian rural township near Toronto. Inventory, planning and protection strategies.