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dc.coverage.spatialCreation Site: Savannah, Georgia, United States, North and Central America,en_US
dc.coverage.temporalMay 1997 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorGilchrist, Scotten_US
dc.date1997en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-30T17:11:25Z
dc.date.available2013-08-30T17:11:25Z
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.identifier231296en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2473en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/139547
dc.descriptionView of row houses; James Oglethorpe, a military officer, led the first group of settlers to Georgia and founded Savannah in 1733, as a debtors' haven and buffer to Spanish Florida. He probably drew up the town’s distinctive urban plan, perhaps in association with other trustees. Unlike traditional new towns, Savannah was given no central square, no single hierarchical pattern and no boundary. Instead, it was based on an indefinitely extendable grid of ‘wards’, each measuring 600 ft sq. (c. 183 m sq.), focused on its own square and comprising sectors for public and private buildings and a diversity of street types. Four such wards were set out in 1733, and two more added in the following year. By 1851 there were twenty-four squares in the city; many contain monuments, markers, memorials, statues, plaques, and other tributes. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 4/29/2011)en_US
dc.format.mediumphotographs; digital imagesen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectcityscapeen_US
dc.subjectCity planningen_US
dc.subjectantebellum architectureen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleSavannah: Topographic Views of the City Squaresen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1B3-AB-S-G7en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniquephotographyen_US
vra.worktypetopographical viewen_US
vra.worktypephotographen_US
dc.contributor.displayScott Gilchrist (Canadian photographer, born 1960)en_US


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