@article {Stilgoe57, author = {John R. Stilgoe}, title = {The Railroad Beautiful: Landscape Architecture and the Railroad Gardening Movement, 1867-1930}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {57--66}, year = {1982}, doi = {10.3368/lj.1.2.57}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, abstract = {American landscape architects enthusiastically confronted the design challenges posed by the railroad and by the peculiar {\textquotedblleft}view from the train.{\textquotedblright} The profession evolved an aesthetic theory, and tested its concepts on sites ranging from rights-of-way hillsides to suburban station grounds. Landscape architects united municipal, corporate, and private interests into a broadly successful movement that emphasized quality site-planning and careful planting. Although the movement withered in the late 1920s, its lessons are still valuable to a profession grappling with the design of roads and perhaps, in the future, with a rebirth of rail travel.}, issn = {0277-2426}, URL = {https://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/57}, eprint = {https://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/57.full.pdf}, journal = {Landscape Journal} }