of northern Wisconsin, the depletion of mineral resources in the southwest, and increasing urban development, Nolen was hired not only to find locations for parks but also to provide a reason for their existence. He recommended the creation of four state parks and provided guidelines for the establishment of a state park system. Nolen's legacy lives on in Madison. One of Madison's main thoroughfares, John Nolen Drive, is named after him. A strava cycling segment, named "John Nolen" in his honor, is a 1.4 mile stretch of bike path adjacent to John Nolen Drive. Nolen Shore, a twelve-story, high-rise building named after him, was completed in 2006. Tenney Park-Yahara River Parkway, which Nolen helped design, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bibliography New Ideals in the Planning of Cities Towns and Villages (1919) New Towns for Old (1927) Further reading Beck, Jody. John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape. London: Routledge, 2013. Print. Nolen, John. New Towns for Old. Amherst: Library of American Landscape History and University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Stephenson, R. Bruce. "The Roots of the New Urbanism: John Nolen's Garden City Ethic." Journal of Planning History, vol. 1, no. 2, 99-123 (2002). Stephenson, R. Bruce. John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner. Amherst: Library of American Landscape History and University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. Stephenson, R. Bruce. Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. References External links 1922 Plan of Asheville, North Carolina by John Nolen 1920 Plan of Bristol, Connecticut by John Nolen 1926 Plan of Venice, Florida byJohn Nolen Madison : a model city UW-Madison TEI edition, July 2000 Papers of the Nolen-Schatte family, 1886-1990 (inclusive), 1886-1954 (bulk) Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. 1869 births 1937 deaths American landscape architects Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni American urban planners Architects from Philadelphia Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni