Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

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Overview

An anthology of the key writings of the best-known and arguably most prolific landscape architect in U.S. history.

Often called the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted was responsible for the design of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City; Mount Royal Park in Montreal; the Belle Isle Park in Detroit; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee; the Cherokee Park and entire parks system in Louisville, KY; and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, to name a few of his most famous projects. His landscape works are enjoyed in 25 states and 3 Canadian provinces. Most of these parks were created during and immediately after the Civil War. This title presents the opportunity to witness the evolution of Olmsted’s design and social philosophies during a time of upheaval in American history.

Sixteen selections, dating from the 1850s to the 1890s, reveal Frederick Law Olmsted’s youthful interests as well as his mature thinking on cities, small residential sites, the history and theory of urban parks, and landscape architecture in general. His writings directly addressed important issues of his day, but they remain as cogent as ever in today’s environmental crisis.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393733105
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 08/16/2010
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Robert Twombly teaches at the Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College, New York City. He lives in West Nyack, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 7

Introduction 11

I Youthful Observations

1 The People's Park at Birkenhead (1851) 39

2 The Phalanstery and the Phalansterians (1852) 49

II Small Residential Sites

3 Suburban Home Grounds (1871) 61

4 Plan for a Small Homestead (1888) 71

5 Terrace and Veranda-Back and Front (1888) 83

III Cities

6 Chicago in Distress (1871) 91

7 The Future of New-York (1879) 109

8 "A Healthy Change in the Tone of the Human Heart" (1886) 121

IV Landscape Gardening

9 On Landscape Gardening (1876) 139

10 Landscape Gardening (1877) 149

11 The Landscape Architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) 163

V Park Design: History and Theory

12 Address to the Prospect Park Scientific Association (1868) 187

13 Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (1870) 201

14 Park (1875) 253

15 A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (1881) 283

16 Parks, Parkways, and Pleasure-Grounds (1895) 311

For Further Reading 325

Index 327

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