Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks

by Frederick Law Olmsted

A superb visual overview of the major public parks designed by the foremost landscape architect in American history.

Winner, John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Architecture, FY16

Lavishly illustrated with over 470 images--129 of them in color--this book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421410869
• ISBN13: 9781421410869
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 5.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 11.2" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher