%0 Journal Article
%T Cities of Zion:  Methodist Camp Meeting Associations and Vernacular Town Planning
%A Samuel Avery-Quinn
%J Journal of Planning History
%@ 1552-6585
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1538513217710372
%X In the late nineteenth century, camp meeting towns were a common feature of the American landscape. The boards of Methodist ministers and laity overseeing these towns adopted management and planning strategies drawn from movements for romantic suburbs, sanitary reform, and urban parks. The strategies these Methodists adopted represent a practice of vernacular planning crafted decades before the professionalization of the discipline in the United States. Analysis of the planning history of two sites¡ªOcean Grove, NJ, and Round Lake, NY¡ªreveals factors shaping this development of Methodistic town planning
%K camp meeting
%K Methodist
%K vernacular planning
%K resorts
%K Ocean Grove
%K Round Lake
%K parks
%K romantic suburbs
%K sanitary reform
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1538513217710372