Language: English
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007
ISBN 10: 0801883369 ISBN 13: 9780801883361
Seller: Browsing Is Arousing, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The seventh volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted presents the record of his last years of residence in New York City. It includes reports on the design of Riverside and Morningside parks and Tompkins Square in Manhattan, as well as his comprehensive plan for the street system and rapid transit routes of the Bronx. It records his continuing work on Central Park and presents his final retrospective statement, The Spoils of the Park. In addition, volume seven contains an annotated version of the journal in which Olmsted recorded instances of political maneuvering and patronage politics in the years before his dismissal from the New York parks department in 1878. Later documents chronicle the early stages of his planning of the Boston park system--the Back Bay Fens, Arnold Arboretum, and Riverway. Other major commissions, each with its own political complications, were the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, the completion of the new state capitol in Albany, the designing of a park on Mount Royal in Montreal, and construction of the park system of Buffalo, New York. The volume also presents Olmsted's commentary on issues of the times including federal Reconstruction policy and civil-service reform. Record # 379252.
Language: English
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1421410869 ISBN 13: 9781421410869
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Language: English
Published by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2015
ISBN 10: 1421410869 ISBN 13: 9781421410869
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2020
ISBN 10: 1421438674 ISBN 13: 9781421438672
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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