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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Hall. |
ISBN: | 0821219987 9780821219980 |
OCLC Number: | 1126399999 |
Description: | IX, 270 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
Contents: | One yeoman's beginning; lessons of the land; an American farmer in the new world; an important man; Central park, the beginning; Civil War, civil servant; nature, barbarity, and civilization; a civilized man professes architecture; Olmstead and Vaux, partners again; community design; the "unpractical man"; the end of a career; epilogue. Apendix: major works of Frederick Law Olmstead. |
Responsibility: | Lee Hall. |
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