Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ethan Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context. Despite the difficulties now confronting the parks, their continued ability to attract millions of visitors suggests that their creators succeeded in presenting a captivating vision of a once-wild America.
| ISBN: | 9780803263833 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 1999 |
| Author: | Ethan Carr |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 378 pages |
| Genres: |
Architecture Landscape architecture and design |