The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system /

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Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national and international attention. The improvements carefully augmented the city’s original plan with urban design features inspired by Second Empire Paris, including...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kowsky, Francis R., 1943-
Corporate Author: Library of American Landscape History
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press : Library of American Landscape History, [2013]
Series:Designing the American park.
Subjects:
Olmsted, Frederick Law, > 1822-1903.
Vaux, Calvert, > 1824-1895.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, > 1822-1903
Vaux, Calvert, > 1824-1895
1800-1899
Parks > New York (State) > Buffalo > History > 19th century.
Parks > New York (State) > Buffalo > Design and construction > History > 19th century.
City planning > New York (State) > Buffalo > History > 19th century.
Landscape design > New York (State) > Buffalo > History > 19th century.
Aménagement paysager > New York (État) > Buffalo > Histoire > 19e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
City planning.
Landscape design.
Parks.
Parks > Design and construction.
New York (State) > Buffalo.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Ethan Carr
  • Introduction : Olmsted and Vaux and the Progress of the American Park Movement
  • The Creation of the Park System
  • The Making of the Park
  • The Front and Prospect Place
  • The Parade
  • Parkways, Circles, and Squares
  • Parkside, Buffalo State Hospital, and Smaller Parks
  • The Emancipation of Niagara
  • South Park, Cazenovia Park, and Riverside Park
  • Epilogue.

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