Writings on public parks, parkways, and park systems

Writings on public parks, parkways, and park systems / Charles E. Beveridge, Carolyn F. Hoffman, editors.

"Historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners, students, and citizens' groups continue to turn to Olmsted for ideas about the development and conservation of green spaces in urban areas. "Olmsted the man belongs to his own time, but his work and words continue to...

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Main Author: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 (Author)
Other Authors: Beveridge, Charles E. (Editor), Hoffman, Carolyn F. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Series:Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Supplementary series ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Parks > United States > History > Sources.
Parks > History > Sources.
Parks
United States
History
Sources
Table of Contents:
  • The first response to a public park: "The people's park at Birkenhead, near Liverpool," May 1851
  • A classic park plan: "Preliminary report to the Commissioners for laying out a park in Brooklyn, New York," January 24, 1866
  • The concept of the "park way": "Report to the Brooklyn Park Commission," January 1, 1868
  • The psychological effect of park scenery: "Address to the Prospect Park Scientific Association," May 1868
  • The first park system of Olmsted, Vaux & Co.: To William Edward Dorsheimer, October 1, 1868
  • Parks and city planning: "Public parks and the enlargement of towns," February 25, 1870
  • Landscape themes for a park in Chicago: "Report accompanying plan for laying out the South Park," March 1871
  • Protection of the Greensward plan for Central Park: "A review of recent changes, and changes which have been projected, in the plans of the Central Park," January and February 1872
  • The policing of urban parks: "General order for the organization and routine of duty of the keepers' service of the Central Park," March 31, 1873
  • Parks in Europe and America: "Park" from the American cyclopedia 1875
  • The special characteristics of a park: "Considerations of the justifying value of a public park," January 28, 1881
  • Planning a park on a mountain site: "Mount Royal, Montreal," 1881
  • An island park and the structures appropriate to it: "Belle Isle: after one year," June 1884
  • Planning urban waterways as public open space: "Paper on the Back Bay problem and its solution," April 3, 1886
  • A "country park" for a New England setting: "Notes on the plan of Franklin Park and related matters," 1886
  • Preservation of natural scenery: "General plan for the improvement of the Niagara Reservation," 1887
  • Designing a second park for a city's recreation system: "Plan for a public park on the flats south of Buffalo," October 1, 1888
  • A last attempt to define the purpose of parks: To Joseph Thomas Carew, January 30, 1874
  • Appendix: List of textual alterations.

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