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Ethan Carr
an intelligent and level-headed look at the great promise and the great problems associated with the Park Service’s Mission 66 program. (Ken Burns, filmmaker)Winner Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society…
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Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, this title places national park landscape architecture within a larger…
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Ethan Carr's forthcoming book, Boston's Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City, documents the design and history of Frederick Law Olmsted's most mature expression of urban park design. In…
Essential reading for all who are concerned with protecting gradually diminishing cultural landscapes. In his final analysis of Cape Cod National Seashore, Ethan Carr poses provocative questions about how to…
Rolf Diamant,Ethan Carr
During the turbulent decade the United States engaged in a civil war, abolished slavery, and remade the government, the public park emerged as a product of these dramatic changes. New…
This diverse new collection of essays, written by scholars, practitioners, and public-land managers, considers the history of public park design, as well as the parks themselves as repositories of cultural…
Jan Carr
Greedy Apostrophe runs all over town inserting himself in places where he does not belong and causing great confusion.
Frederick Law Olmsted
He would never provide a definitive treatise or textbook on landscape architecture, but the articles presented in this volume contain some of his most mature and powerful statements on the…
Explores the responses of a world-renowned landscape design firm to the difficult demands of urban areas
