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“One can build a concrete highway anywhere. . . . But the Merritt parkway is different. More than any ‘futurama’ at the World’s Fair, . . . it shows what the highway of the future in point of fact will have to look like―a highway where the eye is filled with beauty and the mind with peace.”―Bridgeport Post, 1938
The Merritt Parkway, which connects Connecticut’s Fairfield County with New York State, used to be built in the 1930s, some of the earliest attempts to cope with The us’s new obsession with the automobile. This book traces the history of the Merritt Parkway from the proposals for its construction and design in the early 1920s to its triumphant completion in 1940. Filled with vintage and recent photographs, historic documents, and maps, it isn’t only a picturesque tour of a renowned Connecticut landmark, but is also an appraisal of a major contribution to the built environment―one recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In word and image Bruce Radde explores what is special about this parkway―from the sensitive routing that hugs the rolling rural landscape to its sixty-eight masterful bridges, designed by a single architect mainly in the Art Deco style, making this the largest Art Deco design on this planet. Radde also provides fascinating details about the scandal-filled process by which land used to be acquired, the people―politicians, planners, engineers, and landscape architects―involved in the construction of the road, the introduction of tolls and gas stations, the decision to ban commercial vehicles, and the reasons why the adjoining Wilbur Cross Parkway is not as inspiring as the older Merritt road. Radde discusses the quite a lot of preservation efforts that have taken place since World War II. Comparing the Merritt to other acclaimed roads around the country, such as the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the Blue Ridge Parkway, he argues that the Merritt Parkway is a paradigm of what a superhighway can also be, a national treasure to be enjoyed, cherished, and secure.
The Merritt Parkway, which connects Connecticut’s Fairfield County with New York State, used to be built in the 1930s, some of the earliest attempts to cope with The us’s new obsession with the automobile. This book traces the history of the Merritt Parkway from the proposals for its construction and design in the early 1920s to its triumphant completion in 1940. Filled with vintage and recent photographs, historic documents, and maps, it isn’t only a picturesque tour of a renowned Connecticut landmark, but is also an appraisal of a major contribution to the built environment―one recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In word and image Bruce Radde explores what is special about this parkway―from the sensitive routing that hugs the rolling rural landscape to its sixty-eight masterful bridges, designed by a single architect mainly in the Art Deco style, making this the largest Art Deco design on this planet. Radde also provides fascinating details about the scandal-filled process by which land used to be acquired, the people―politicians, planners, engineers, and landscape architects―involved in the construction of the road, the introduction of tolls and gas stations, the decision to ban commercial vehicles, and the reasons why the adjoining Wilbur Cross Parkway is not as inspiring as the older Merritt road. Radde discusses the quite a lot of preservation efforts that have taken place since World War II. Comparing the Merritt to other acclaimed roads around the country, such as the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the Blue Ridge Parkway, he argues that the Merritt Parkway is a paradigm of what a superhighway can also be, a national treasure to be enjoyed, cherished, and secure.
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