Landscape architect and city planner

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Notes

1. John Nolen, New Towns for Old. Achievements in civic improvement in some American small towns and neighbourhoods, with an Introduction by Albert Shaw, Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1927.

2. By the standards of his time Nolen had a liberal outlook on racial segregation dating from 1911 when he was commissioned to prepare a campus plan for Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where contact with African Americans (vividly described in letters to his wife from which Stephenson quotes, 127–8) proved a learning experience: Stephenson's conclusion was that ‘Nolen's experience at Tuskegee deepened his belief in the innate human ability to set goals, plan and create a meaningful and healthy common life’ (128).