Title: Community By Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts
Publisher: Library Of American Landscape History
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1952620228
ISBN 13: 9781952620225
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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In 1883, Frederick Law Olmsted moved his home and office from New York City to the Boston suburb of Brookline. There, collaborating with leading lights of architecture and horticulture, the firm carefully guided development of the town, using it as a laboratory for the new profession of planning, a field Olmsted Jr. was helping to define. This richly illustrated book offers important new perspective on the history of planning and the Olmsted office.

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KEITH N. MORGAN, retired professor of art history and director of architectural studies at Boston University, is author of Shaping a New American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt and coauthor of Boston Architecture, 1975-1990. He is also editor and principal author of Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston and architecture editor for The Encyclopedia of New England.

ELIZABETH HOPE CUSHING is a landscape historian. She has written cultural landscape history reports for the Taft Art Museum in Cincinnati, the National Park Service, and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and has contributed essays to Pioneers of American Landscape Design; Design with Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage; Shaping the American Landscape; and Drawing Toward Home. She is coauthor of Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts (LALH, 2013).

ROGER G. REED is a historian for the National Register of Historic Places and the National Landmarks Program. His previous publications include Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J. F. Bryant.

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