city planning

Plans for proposed building projects in Washington, D.C. Plan for prop...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Proposed drawing for Independence Square, Washington Memorial and grou...

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[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Bird's-eye perspective dra...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Model. Transit hub]

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Feasibility study, Scheme ...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation no. 8.10.2396.9.

[Center Church, New Haven, Connecticut. Façade. Elevation]

Study drawing of existing building from office of Paul Rudolph, preparatory to his proposal for the New Haven Government Center. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Plan. Study sket...

Original slide showing study sketch by Rudolph. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Mountain Brook, Mountain Brook Parkway at Cahaba Road, Mountain Brook,...

Significance: Mountain Brook is significant for planning and community development because it is a critical component of (and symbolically represents) an early and significant example of a planned community tha... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...

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Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Town of Penn-Craft, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA

Written data includes location maps, site plans, & floor plans. Significance: The Town of Penn-Craft was developed as part of a broad reaching effort of the New Deal era intended to relieve the dire economic ru... More

Town of Penn-Craft, Penncraft, Fayette County, PA

Written data includes location maps, site plans, & floor plans. Significance: The Town of Penn-Craft was developed as part of a broad reaching effort of the New Deal era intended to relieve the dire economic ru... More

David Pulsifer Inn, Route 103, Rockingham, Windham County, VT

Significance: There are records of local town meetings held in this house in 1775. Local legend says that the town of Concord, Vermont, was planned in this house. Survey number: HABS VT-41 Building/structure... More

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Mountain Home Veterans Administration Medical Center, Johnson City, W...

For additional documentation see HABS TN-254. Significance: It was established in 1901 as the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The establishment of the Mountain Branch was b... More

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Ore Dressing Pilot ...

Significance: Building 600, as part of the Date Street Complex, was a component of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Bould... More

Merrimack Canal, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: The Merrimack Canal was the first of the series of power canals constructed at Lowell. At the end of it, the Merrimack Mills produced textiles using the process developed by Francis Cabot Lowell ... More

Merrimack Canal, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Significance: The Merrimack Canal was the first of the series of power canals constructed at Lowell. At the end of it, the Merrimack Mills produced textiles using the process developed by Francis Cabot Lowell ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Alon...

Significance: The Hospital Point neighborhood was built in association with the development of the naval hospital at Pearl Harbor and the adjacent Radio Station, the navy's first radio installation in Pearl Har... More

Liberty Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, East Carson Street & Secon...

Significance: This was the longest and most expensive bridge built in Allegheny County when it was completed in 1928. The bridge links Pittsburgh's downtown area with the Liberty Tunnels, built through Mt. Wash... More

Buckingham Apartment Complex, Bounded by George Mason Drive, Henderson...

Significance: Buckingham, a garden apartment complex constructed between 1937 and 1953 in Arlington, Virginia, is a nationally significant example of the application of pioneering principles of garden city plan... More

Downtown Providence, Roughley bounded by Woonasquatucket River, Provid...

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Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

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Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

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Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Rotten living Decent living through planned housing.

Poster promoting planned housing as a solution to better living conditions in cities, showing a child standing in a alley with a trash can and cat rummaging through the garbage. Work Projects Administration Pos... More

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model A. View in...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model E. Main fa...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model B. Façades...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Tower. Sketch]

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation no. 8.10.2396.11.

Eliminate crime in the slums through housing

Poster promoting planned housing as a method to deter crime in the slums, showing stylized man holding a gun against a backdrop of tenement buildings. Date stamped on verso: Sep 12 1936. New York City Housing ... More

Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...

Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More

Euclid Avenue, Upland, San Bernardino County, CA

Significance: Euclid Avenue is significant in three areas: community planning, landscape architecture, and transportation. Each reflect the vision of George and William Chaffey, who designed the avenue and ove... More

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Hartford...

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Downtown Neighborhood, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Written data includes photocopies of location maps. Survey number: HABS PA-5670

Hyōgo chikutō hitobashira no zu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man presenting a city plan to the emperor at court with many ministers seated nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Tr... More

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Comprehensive plan for the national capital, federal elements : [Washi...

Cover title/text title. Title at upper right: Comprehensive plan for the national capital. Maps individually numbered at lower right: NCPC Map File No. 61.00/100.00-29261 [discontinuously to] NCPC Map File No. ... More

Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Administration Offi...

Significance: Building 100, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Sketch plan of transit hub...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. 24942 is test scan by AOC Scan Lab, April 2010.

Abraham Curry House, 406 North Nevada Street, Carson City, Carson City...

Significance: This house was built and lived in by the founder of Carson City, who was also the first Superintendent of the U.S. Mint at Carson. The house resembles much earlier prototypes and is largely in it... More

West Branch Bridge, South Carolina Road S-569 spanning West Branch of ...

Significance: The State Road 569 bridge, built by the Pacolet Manufacturing Company, was an integral part of a designed landscape known as "Victor Park" created by Earle Sumner Draper. Draper is considered to ... More

West Branch Bridge, South Carolina Road S-569 spanning West Branch of ...

Significance: The State Road 569 bridge, built by the Pacolet Manufacturing Company, was an integral part of a designed landscape known as "Victor Park" created by Earle Sumner Draper. Draper is considered to ... More

Liberty Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, East Carson Street & Secon...

Significance: This was the longest and most expensive bridge built in Allegheny County when it was completed in 1928. The bridge links Pittsburgh's downtown area with the Liberty Tunnels, built through Mt. Wash... More

Liberty Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, East Carson Street & Secon...

Significance: This was the longest and most expensive bridge built in Allegheny County when it was completed in 1928. The bridge links Pittsburgh's downtown area with the Liberty Tunnels, built through Mt. Wash... More

Liberty Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, East Carson Street & Secon...

Significance: This was the longest and most expensive bridge built in Allegheny County when it was completed in 1928. The bridge links Pittsburgh's downtown area with the Liberty Tunnels, built through Mt. Wash... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone structure, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

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Prospect Boulevard Bridge, Prospect Boulevard spanning Seco Street, Pa...

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Liberty Memorial, 100 West Twenty-sixth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: Liberty Memorial vividly exemplifies the fulfillment of city planning concepts, combining monumentally scaled Beaux Arts Classicism envisioned by some of the nations most notable and diverse delin... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More

Savannah Victorian Historic District, Bounded by Gwinnett, East Broad,...

Significance: The Victorian District, located just south of the original settlement in Savannah, represents a fairly intact neighborhood of well-built frame houses, many of which are ornamented with the exubera... More