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Visions of Eden

其他書名	Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995
出版	Ohio State University Press, 1997
主題	Architecture / Urban & Land Use PlanningHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN	08142072519780814207253
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Y19PAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Since the turn of the century, the opportunity to design a city nestled in a subtropical garden has attracted the nation's preeminent planners to St. Petersburg. The most ambitious plan was developed in 1923 by John Nolen, who believed that an interconnected system of preserves and parks would enhance the city's development and attract tourists for generations. His initiative failed miserably at the polls, however, because it threatened the conflicting notion of paradise held by hundreds of investors, who were profiting from the greatest real estate boom in the nation's history and feared that planning would curtail speculation. As Stephenson points out, a half century would pass until a series of ecological disasters in the 1970s finally compelled city officials to adopt an environmentally sound development plan that reflected Nolen's original vision.