Platt Lorne A
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
J Urban Hist. 2010;36(6):771-91. doi: 10.1177/0096144210374016.
As Milwaukee’s chief park planner in the early to mid-twentieth century, Charles Whitnall responded to the various underlying ideologies of the period within which he worked. His preference for parks was a political and physical response to and remedy for the industrialized and heavily congested city he called home. By examining the Progressive Era discourse associated with planning, this article situates Whitnall’s work within the political, aesthetic, and environmental contexts of geographic thought that influenced his plans for Milwaukee. In promoting a physical awareness associated with the natural features of the region and responding to the sociopolitical framework of contemporaries such as Ebenezer Howard, Whitnall incorporated a sense of compassion within his planning. He responded to the preexisting beer gardens of Pabst and Schlitz, as well as Olmsted-designed park spaces, by advocating for decentralization as part of a broader socialist agenda that had swept through Milwaukee during the early 1900s.
作为20世纪初至中叶密尔沃基市的首席公园规划师，查尔斯·惠特纳尔回应了他所处时代的各种潜在意识形态。他对公园的偏好是对他称之为家乡的工业化且拥堵不堪的城市的一种政治和实际回应及补救措施。通过审视与规划相关的进步时代话语，本文将惠特纳尔的工作置于影响他对密尔沃基规划的地理思想的政治、美学和环境背景之中。在促进与该地区自然特征相关的身体感知并回应如埃比尼泽·霍华德等同时代人的社会政治框架时，惠特纳尔在其规划中融入了一种同情心。他通过倡导分散化，作为20世纪初席卷密尔沃基的更广泛社会主义议程的一部分，回应了帕布斯特和施利茨已有的啤酒花园以及奥姆斯特德设计的公园空间。
