Parks over Pasture: Enclosing the Commons in Postbellum New Orleans

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
S. Gallo
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Abstract This article examines the enclosure of the de facto commons that surrounded New Orleans during the final decades of the nineteenth century and argues that public parks were crucial tools deployed by civic elites on behalf of that initiative. As the regulatory efforts of reform-minded mayor Joseph A. Shakspeare failed to eliminate the persistent “cattle nuisance” that emanated from the undeveloped suburbs, he turned to parks as a means of fundamentally transforming the character of the land. By physically enclosing large swathes of acreage, conditioning the public to be urban subjects, and associating the area with leisure rather than agrarian production, the parks made it possible for the city’s modernizers to push dairy farmers out of the area and initiate a process of residential development. By examining this strategic use of greenspace in Gilded Age-era New Orleans, this article seeks to shed new light on the ways in which the urban environment was manipulated in service of the broader New South movement.
牧场之上的公园:包围内战后新奥尔良的下议院
摘要本文考察了19世纪最后几十年围绕新奥尔良的事实上的公地,并认为公共公园是公民精英为这一倡议部署的重要工具。由于具有改革意识的市长Joseph A.Shakspeare的监管努力未能消除未开发郊区持续存在的“养牛滋扰”,他转而将公园作为从根本上改变土地特征的一种手段。通过实际包围大片土地,使公众成为城市主体,并将该地区与休闲而非农业生产联系起来,这些公园使城市的现代化者有可能将奶农赶出该地区,并启动住宅开发进程。通过研究镀金时代新奥尔良对绿地的战略利用,本文试图揭示城市环境为更广泛的新南威尔士运动服务的方式。
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