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Should you ask why we love Greendale,
Find it fun to work and play here,
We all answer, all tell you . . .


It's awakening to bird-song
In the rosy dawn of springtime!
Watching frisky squirrels cavorting!
Romping space for pets and children,
Far from city's threatening traffic!
It's group picnics at grounds southward,
And the suppers cooked o'er charcoal
In one corner of our gardens;
Baby's playpen in the sunshine,
Knowing well that naught can harm him!

We explore another counterpoint to utopia that manifested itself in nineteenth and twentieth century city planning, arcadia - a mythical green space, a modern compromise with the forces of discipline.

Readings: Garreau, Christensen, and Howard

Supplemental Website: Wood's Columbian Exposition Resources

Supplemental Website: Images from the 1933-34 Century of Progress Fair

Notes: Joel Garreau's Machine and Garden

Notes: Carol Christensen's Greendale and Greenbelt chapter

Notes: Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow

Off-campus webpages

Rhoda Amon, The Birth of Garden City

The American Studies Group at UVA, Henry Adams: The Dynamo and the Virgin

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Celestial Railroad

Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-Morrow - maintained by Cornell University

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