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Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the city beautiful : a biography of the founder of Hollywood, Florida / Joan Mickelson.

Title
Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the city beautiful : a biography of the founder of Hollywood, Florida / Joan Mickelson.
Author
Mickelson, Joan.
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2013.

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Description
viii, 211 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
"Joseph Young was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. From palmetto, bare ground and water in 1920 he created Hollywood By-the-Sea with an elegant Beaux Arts plan of circles and lakes, calling his creation a "City Beautiful," an ideal first propounded by Daniel Burnham of Chicago"--
Subject
  • Young, Joseph Wesley, Jr., 1882-1934
  • City planning > Hollywood
  • Urban beautification > Hollywood
  • City planners > Hollywood
  • Hollywood (Fla.) > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-203) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780786468805 (softcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0786468807 (softcover : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^2012044134
OCLC
779877023
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library