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Summary
Summary
A visionary developer and master planner, James Rouse was a key figure in the story of how and why the United States was built the way it was during the last half century. This engaging biography touches upon all aspects of Rouse's life.
Author Notes
Joshua Olsen is a Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Yale University. He works for a development company in Washington, DC.
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Library Journal Review
Most people don't know who James Rouse is, but he is well known to architects and planners as one of the most important master planners and real estate developers of the past 50 years. Born in 1914, Rouse worked his way through the Great Depression, earned a bachelor of law degree at night from the University of Maryland, and slowly built up his business experience in mortgage and title guarantees into the mighty Rouse Corporation, one of the largest real estate companies in the world. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1981 as the father of urban revitalization. Rouse is most famous for Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, which opened to wide acclaim in the Bicentennial Year of 1976; Columbia, MD, outside Washington, DC, which is internationally known as one of the largest and most celebrated planned towns; and Harborplace, Baltimore, which spearheaded the revitalization of that great city after 1980. Rouse's life is duly chronicled in this detailed biography by Olsen, who works for a development company near Washington, DC. Extremely thorough, copiously researched, and fully footnoted, this book is a hagiographic masterpiece. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.-Peter Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
