Best Planned City In The World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

This award-winning book is the definitive account of the creation and development of the country's first urban park system.

Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national and international attention. The improvements augmented the city's original plan with urban design features inspired by Second Empire Paris, including the firs...