{"product_id":"kansas-citys-parks-and-boulevards-patrick-alley-9781531670061","title":"Kansas City's Parks and Boulevards","description":"A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City \"the filthiest in the United States.\" The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was no garbage collection service, and herding livestock through the city was only recently prohibited. Through the diligent efforts of a handful of recently arrived citizens, political, financial, and botanical skills were successfully applied to a nascent parks system. \"Squirrel pastures,\" cliffs and bluffs, ugly ravines, and shanties and slums were turned into a gridiron of green, with chains of parks and boulevards extending in all directions. Wherever the system penetrated well-settled localities, the policy was to provide playgrounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, pools, and field houses. By the time the city fathers were finished, Kansas City could boast of 90 miles of boulevards and 2,500 acres of urban parks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Alley, Dona Boley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531670067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531670061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing Library Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"Patrick Alley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43985552048383,"sku":"9781531670061","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_295ae24f-340e-4c7a-9ef9-639c6b8f5455.jpg?v=1683278195","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kansas-citys-parks-and-boulevards-patrick-alley-9781531670061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}