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