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John Nolen and Mariemont:

Building a New Town in Ohio
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To city planners, landscape architects, and historians, John Nolen is as important a figure in design and planning as was Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, or Lewis Mumford. Scholars, however, have only recently begun to explore the extensive Nolen archives. Relying on rarely published materials from these archives and other sources, John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio details the planning and initial development of the community of Mariemont, outside Cincinnati. Hired by philanthropist Mary Emery, Nolen worked to transform farmland into a community of mixed-income housing complete with commercial space, playgrounds, and a village green. This is the first book to examine the planning and building of Mariemont and one of the few books to focus on the process of American town planning in the early twentieth century. Regarded in the 1920s as an exemplar of planned communities, Mariemont remains one of America's most livable suburbs and has drawn great interest from the New Urbanism movement.


Contents:



Preface and Acknowledgments



Chapter 1: New Town, New Concept

Chapter 2: Nolen's Town Plan Unfolds

Chapter 3: This Is to Be a Model Town

Chapter 4: Work Begins

Chapter 5: Architects and Buildings

Chapter 6: Year of Progress

Chapter 7: The Curtain Drops

Chapter 8: Emery, Nolen, and Livingood

Chapter 9: Was Mariemont the National Exemplar?

Appendix: Mariemont Site Landowners and Acreage in 1924

Notes

Bibliography

Photograph Credits

Index

""A strong element of connoisseurship pervades the book, especially in the assessments of Mariemont's architectural and planning elements. With a fluid writing style supported by a considerable number of illustrations, Rogers offers the reader a guided tour of Mariemont's early residential, commercial, and public buildings.""

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