Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston park system

Author(s)

• Olmsted, Frederick Law
• Zaitzevsky, Cynthia

Bibliographic Information

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston park system

Cynthia Zaitzevsky

Belknap Press, 1992, c1982

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Whether flying a kite in Franklin Park, gardening in the Fens, or jogging along the Riverway, today's Bostonians are greatly indebted to the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted. America's premier landscape architect, Olmsted designed New York's Central Park and Boston's emerald necklace. His invigorating influence shapes the city to this day, despite the encroachment of highways and urban sprawl. Zaitzevsky's book is the first of its kind: a richly detailed, fully illustrated account of the design and construction of Olmsted's Boston parks.

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Details

• NCID: BA18251048
• ISBN:
  • 0674318315
• LCCN: 82006042
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 262 p., [1] leaf of plates
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : SB483.B73
  • DC19 : 712/.5/0924
  • DC19 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Parks -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History
  • LCSH : Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
  • LCSH : Landscape architects -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Boston (Mass.) -- History