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Frederick Law Olmsted : essential texts / edited by Robert Twombly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 344 p. : ill., plans ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780393733105 (pbk.)
  • 0393733106 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB472.4 .O46 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Youthful observations. The People's Park at Birkenhead (1851) -- The Phalanstery and the Phalansterians (1852) -- Small residential sites. Suburban home grounds (1871) -- Plan for a small homestead (1888) -- Terrace and veranda-back and front (1888) -- Cities. Chicago in distress (1871) -- The future of New-York (1879) -- "A healthy change in the tone of the human heart" (1886) -- Landscape gardening. On landscape gardening (1876) -- Landscape gardening (1877) -- The landscape architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) -- Park design history and theory. Address to the Prospect Park Scientific Association (1868) ; Public parks and the enlargement of towns (1870) ; Park (1875) ; A consideration of the justifying value of a public park (1881) ; Parks, parkways, and pleasure-grounds (1895).
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB470.O5 O56 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800066821
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Youthful observations. The People's Park at Birkenhead (1851) -- The Phalanstery and the Phalansterians (1852) -- Small residential sites. Suburban home grounds (1871) -- Plan for a small homestead (1888) -- Terrace and veranda-back and front (1888) -- Cities. Chicago in distress (1871) -- The future of New-York (1879) -- "A healthy change in the tone of the human heart" (1886) -- Landscape gardening. On landscape gardening (1876) -- Landscape gardening (1877) -- The landscape architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) -- Park design history and theory. Address to the Prospect Park Scientific Association (1868) ; Public parks and the enlargement of towns (1870) ; Park (1875) ; A consideration of the justifying value of a public park (1881) ; Parks, parkways, and pleasure-grounds (1895).

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