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Grady Clay (1916–2013)

Author of Close-Up

12 Works 188 Members 1 Review

Works by Grady Clay

Close-Up (1973) 107 copies

Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape (1994) 42 copies

Alleys: A Hidden Resource- Being a Disquisition Upon the Origins, Natural Disposition and Occurrences in the American Scene of Alleys (1978) 10 copies

Right Before Your Eyes: Penetrating the Urban Environment (1987) 8 copies

Landscapes for living (1980) 5 copies

Water and the Landscape (1979) 4 copies

Crossing the American Grain (2003) 4 copies

Alleys: A Hidden Resource (1978) 3 copies

How to Read the American City Close Up (1973) 2 copies

Landscapes for Living (McGraw-Hill series in landscape and landscape architecture) 1 copy

An Unconventional Guide to Real Places: America's Generic Landscape (1994) 1 copy

Being a disquisition upon the origins, natural disposition and occurrences in the American scene 1 copy, 1 review

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1916
Date of death: 2013-03-17
Gender: male
Education: Emory University
Columbia University (AM)
Occupations: journalist
author
Landscape Architecture Magazine editor
Awards and honors: Guggenheim Fellow (1973-1974)
Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1947)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Place of death: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Being a disquisition upon the origins, natural disposition and occurrences in the American scene by Grady Clay

60 p., maps, illustrations

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Statistics

Works: 12
Members: 188
Popularity: #115,782
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 10

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WFPL NPR Radio online obituary

Grady Clay, Urban Visionary (appreciation)

University of Louisville archive

The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.) online obituary

The Grady Clay Award of the Louisville Community Design Center

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