John Nolen (1869-1937) was a pioneer in the development of professional town and city planning in the United States. Nolen's comprehensive approach merged the social, economic, and physical aspects of planning while emphasizing, in the author's words, "versatility, special knowledge, and cooperation." Between 1905 and 1937, Nolen's firm, based in ......
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 ......
Marjorie Sewell Cautley presents the life and work of one of the pioneers of American landscape design of the early twentieth-century Over the course of four decades, Marjorie Cautley (1891-1954) became the first woman landscape architect to design state parks, plan the landscape for a public housing project, and teach in a university planning ......
Ossian Cole Simonds (1855-1931) was one of the country's earliest and most important landscape architects, the progenitor of the "middle-western movement" of landscape design. Landscape-Gardening (1920) presents Simonds's many remarkably prescient ideas: his use of native plants; his desire to protect the land for aesthetic as well as utilitarian ......
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Laurel Hill Association
The Laurel Hill Association, founded by Mary Hopkins Goodrich in 1853, transformed the Berkshires' village of Stockbridge into a model American town.Improving the Village traces the evolution of the influential volunteer group that inspired like-minded citizens to establish hundreds of village improvement associations throughout the nation. ......
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 ......
One of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs for the grounds of the Washington Monument, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, and Bryant Park in New York City. His recent projects include the award-winning landscape for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Apple Park in Cupertino, and ......
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 ......
Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), better known as an architect, is most frequently remembered as Frederick Law Olmsted's partner in the design of Central Park, primarily of its fanciful architectural structures. In this visionary book, Francis R. Kowsky illuminates Vaux's work as a landscape architect through a significant practice of his own.
