Nineteenth Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning

Nineteenth Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning

For this reason the author has elected not to use the term village because it is too confining for the vision behind Mormon city planning. The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States (Princeton, N.J.; ...

Author: C. Mark Hamilton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0195360583

Category: Architecture

Page: 352

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This book is the first comprehensive study of Mormon architecture. It centers on the doctrine of Zion which led to over 500 planned settlements in Missouri, Illinois, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Canada, and Mexico. This doctrine also led to a hierarchy of building types from temples and tabernacles to meetinghouses and tithing offices. Their built environment stands as a monument to a unique utopian society that not only survived but continues to flourish where others have become historical or cultural curiosities. Hamilton's account, augmented by 135 original and historical photographs, provides a fascinating example of how religious teachings and practices are expressed in planned communities and architecture types.
Categories: Architecture

Manifest Destinations

Manifest Destinations

Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West J. Philip Gruen. was so common in nineteenth-century Chicago ... Hitchcock, Architecture, 184, 351; Hamilton, Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture & City Planning, 134. 90.

Author: J. Philip Gruen

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN: 9780806147321

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 313

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In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.
Categories: Business & Economics

Mormon Visual Culture and the American West

Mormon Visual Culture and the American West

35 Hamilton, Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning, 53–57, 77–79. 36 Ronald W. Walker, “The Salt Lake Tabernacle in the Nineteenth Century: A Glimpse of Early Mormonism,” Journal of Mormon History 31, no.

Author: Nathan Rees

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000349795

Category: Art

Page: 166

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This book explores the place of art in Latter-day Saint society during the first 50 years of the Utah settlement, beginning in 1847. Nathan Rees uncovers the critical role that images played in nineteenth-century Mormon religion, politics, and social practice. These artists not only represented, but actively participated in debates about theology, politics, race, gender, and sexuality at a time when Latter-day Saints were grappling with evolving doctrine, conflict with Native Americans, and political turmoil resulting from their practice of polygamy. The book makes an important contribution to art history, Mormon studies, American studies, and religious studies.
Categories: Art

Cities of Zion

Cities of Zion

Mormon and non-Mormon Town Plans in the U.S. Mountain West, 1847–1930,” Journal of Historical Geography 50 (October 2015): 1–13; Mark Hamilton, Nineteenth-century Mormon Architecture and City Planning (New York: Oxford University Press, ...

Author: Samuel Avery-Quinn

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9781498576550

Category: History

Page: 358

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This study examines the transformation of American Methodist camp meeting revivalism from the Gilded Age through the twenty-first century. It analyzes middle-class Protestants as they struggled with economic and social change, industrialization, moral leisure, theological controversies, and radically changing city life and landscape.
Categories: History

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty First Century Urban Design

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty First Century Urban Design

Nineteenth Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hamin, Elisabeth M. and Nicole Gurran. 2008. “Urban Form and Climate Change: Balancing Adaptation and Mitigation in the US and Australia.

Author: Jon Lang

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000206234

Category: Architecture

Page: 424

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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated, the projects that were designed following their precepts, the functions they address and/or afford, and what we can learn from them. The morphology of a city—its built environment—evolves unselfconsciously as private and governmental investors self-consciously erect buildings and infrastructure in a pragmatic, piecemeal manner to meet their own ends. Philosophers, novelists, architects, and social scientists have produced myriad ideas about the nature of the built environment that they consider to be superior to those forms resulting from a laissez-faire attitude to urban development. Rationalist theorists dream of ideal futures based on assumptions about what is good; empiricists draw inspirations from what they perceive to be working well in existing situations. Both groups have presented their advocacies in manifestoes and often in the form of generic solutions or illustrative designs. This book traces the history of these ideas and will become a standard reference for scholars and students interested in the history of urban spaces, including architects, planners, urban historians, urban geographers, and urban morphologists.
Categories: Architecture

Brigham Young University Studies

Brigham Young University Studies

... ( Salt Lake City : Deseret Book ; Provo , Utah : Brigham Young University Press , 2002 ) , 19 . 2. C. Mark Hamilton , Nineteenth - Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 ) , 15 , 17 .

Author: Brigham Young University

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015066153936

Category: Mormons

Page:

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Categories: Mormons

A House Full of Females

A House Full of Females

Brandon S. Plewe (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2012), 44–45: C. Mark Hamilton, Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 14–19, 25–28. 16. New York Herald, June 1858, ...

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Publisher: Vintage

ISBN: 9781101947975

Category: Religion

Page: 528

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From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.
Categories: Religion

America s Religions

America s Religions

Hamilton, C. Mark. Nineteenth Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hanks, Maxine. Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City: Signature, 1992. Hardy, B. Carmon.

Author: Peter W. Williams

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

ISBN: 9780252075513

Category: Religion

Page: 706

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A panoramic introduction to religion in America, newly revised and updated
Categories: Religion

Building the City of Zion

Building the City of Zion

Author: Paul L. Anderson

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:42357390

Category: Mormons and Mormonism

Page: 92

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Categories: Mormons and Mormonism

Contemporary Mormonism

Contemporary Mormonism

Lake Temple ( Salt Lake City : Bookcraft , 1992 ) ; On Mormon city planning , see C. Mark Hamilton , Nineteenth - Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 ) . 7.

Author: Claudia L. Bushman

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 027598933X

Category: Religion

Page: 268

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Much misunderstood, Mormonism had a colorful beginning in the 19th century, as a visionary named Joseph Smith founded and built a community of believers with their own unique faith. In the late-20th century, the church had to come to terms with its own growth and organization, as well as with the increasing pervasiveness of globalization, secularization, and cultural changes. Today Mormonism is one of the major religions in America, and continues to grow internationally. However, though the church itself remains strong, it is elusive to those of other faiths. Here, a seasoned author and third-generation Mormon sheds light on the everyday lives and practices of faithful Mormons. Bushman's readers will come away with a more thorough appreciation of what it means to be Mormon in the modern world. Much misunderstood, Mormonism had a colorful beginning in the 19th century, as a visionary named Joseph Smith founded and built a community of believers with their own unique faith. In the late-20th century, the church had to come to terms with its own growth and organization, as well as with the increasing pervasiveness of globalization, secularization, and cultural changes. Today Mormonism is one of the major religions in America, and one that continues to grow internationally. However, though the church itself remains strong, it is elusive to those of other faiths. Here, a seasoned author and third-generation Mormon sheds light on the everyday lives and practices of faithful Mormons. Bushman's readers will come away with a more thorough appreciation of what it means to be Mormon in the modern world. Following Brigham Young into the Great Basin and founding communities that have endured for over 100 years, Mormons have forged a rich history in this country even as they built communities around the world. But the origins of this faith and those who adhere to it remain mysterious to many in the United States. Bushman allows readers a vivid glimpse into the lives of Mormons--their beliefs, rituals, and practices, as well as their views on race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual orientation. The voices of actual Mormons reveal much about their inspiration, devotion, patriotism, individualism, and conservatism. With its mythical history and unlikely success, many wonder what has made this religion endure through the years. Here, readers will find answers to their questions about what it means to be Mormon in contemporary America.
Categories: Religion