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John Nolen was a pioneering town planner who had a national impact on town
planning during the early twentieth century with some
of his best known work in Florida including his 1925
plan for Venice, Florida. (This plan for Venice is engraved
on the back of the metal.) Nolen called the Sunshine
State “a laboratory for town and city building”
and advocated settlements that showcase the “beauty
of human work.”
John Nolen was a renaissance man, in new urbanist terms
a “generalist,” who studied economics at
the Wharton School, architecture, landscape architecture,
and planning – the field he helped create, earning
his degree in landscape architecture from Harvard in
1905. During his extremely active years of practice
between his graduation and the Great Depression, Nolen
helped advance the practice of civic art during its
golden era in the United States.
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