Historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners, students, and citizens' groups continue to turn to Olmsted for ideas about the development and conservation of green spaces in urban areas.
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Olmsted the man belongs to his own time, but his work and words continue to have meaning today... The editors are preserving a life and a work instructive for the future as well as of the past.
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Historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners, students, and citizens' groups continue to turn to Olmsted for ideas about the development and conservation of green spaces in urban areas.
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Public Parks, Parkways, and Park Systems [Supplementary Series, Volume I] (Volume 1) (Hardcover)
Olmsted's own writings about the necessity and joys of grand public green spaces are amazingly current and relevant.
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parkway question, patrol keepers, carriage concourse, extra keepers, park undertaking, deer paddock, keepers force, public recreation grounds, bridle road, rural park, street arrangements, evening section, organic purpose, park commissioners, music concourse, justifying value, park scenery, state reservation, park board, urban elegance, inclined railway, accompanying plan, rural recreation, post keepers, circuit drive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Back Bay, Franklin Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Belle Isle, Goat Island, Mount Royal, Niagara Falls, North Park, United States, Calvert Vaux, Country Park, State Reservation, Lake Erie, Bois de Boulogne, Department of Parks, Spring Grove, Public Garden, Delaware Park, Lower Division, San Francisco, Adolph Strauch, Coney Island, Detroit Evening News, John Ruskin New!
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- Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System by Cynthia Zaitzevsky on 12 pages
- A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (Notable American Authors Series) by Frederick Law Olmsted on 6 pages
- Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (Notable American Authors) by Frederick Law Olmsted on 4 pages
- Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England by Frederick Law Olmsted on 4 pages
- The Oxford Companion to Gardens (Oxford Companions) by Patrick Goode on 4 pages
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