Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies This award-winning book is the definitive account of the creation and development of the country's first urban park system. Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national and ......
In this volume Robert E. Grese gathers together writings on nature-based landscape design and conservation by some of the country's most significant practitioners, horticulturists, botanists, and conservationists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written with a strong conservation ethic, these essays often originally appeared ......
One of the foremost landscape architects of the early twentieth century, Fletcher Steele (1885-1971) published frequently in both popular magazines and professional journals, on topics ranging from horticulture to conservation, civic improvement, modernism, and space composition. Engagingly written and infused with Steele's sharp wit, Design in ......
As superintendent of planting in Central Park and landscape architect to New York City for nearly thirty years, Samuel Parsons Jr. (1844-1923) was a last direct link to Vaux and Olmsted. His widely read 1915 book summed up the theories and work that had inspired America's first generation of landscape architects. Francis R. Kowsky's introduction ......
After World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet funding remained at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. In 1956, "Mission 66," a ten-year billion-dollar federal initiative, was launched to reimagine the national park system. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape ......
Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery
This award-winning book offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first landscape in the United States to be designed in the picturesque style. Inspired by developments in England and France, Mount Auburn, founded in 1831, became the prototype for the "rural cemetery" movement and was an ......
The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park
Carol Grove chronicles Englishman Henry Shaw's remarkable story, from his early love of plants to his rising social conscience and his determined quest to create a place of unsurpassed beauty and distinction that would educate and thereby improve Americans. Beautifully illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this volume offers an ......
In 1915, Wilhelm Miller (1869-1938) published The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening, a profusely illustrated book that championed the "prairie style" of landscape design, ecologically based using hardy native plants. The first book to address the question of a truly American style of landscape design, it remains one of the most significant ......
Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1871-1959) was one of the first American women landscape architects to receive professional training. Hutcheson considered fine landscape design an instrument of social change and was inspired to write The Spirit of the Garden (1923) by a Progressive Era zeal. Hutcheson's designs include Maudslay State Park in ......
