Buy this book on-line Stevenson, Elizabeth : Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law OlmstedMacmillan, New York, 1977
B&W Illustrations DJ price clipped Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was an American landscape architect, city planner, and writer on social issues,whose career was shaped by his idea of a civilized society. Through his landscape designs and writings, he tried to recast the form of America's cities and suburbs, and to promote the refinement and culture he thought the citizens of a republic could attain. He criticized the slaveholding South because he believed the region lacked the social and cultural institutions that would raise the level of civilization there, Very Good in Very Good DJ, 8vo Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Stevenson, Elizabeth : Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, first editions, fine bindings, livres rares and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |