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The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system
Title:
The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system
Author:
Kowsky, Francis R., 1943-
Personal Author:
Kowsky, Francis R., 1943-
Publication Information:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Library of American Landscape History, [2013]
Physical Description:
xiii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Series:
Designing the American park..

Designing the American park.
Language:
English
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.
Personal Subject:
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.

Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895.
Subject Term:
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.
Added Corporate Author:
Library of American Landscape History.
ISBN:
9781625340061

9781952620270

9781625342911
Format :
Book

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