Format:
Book
Title:
A modern Arcadia : Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. & the plan for Forest Hills Gardens / Susan L. Klaus.
Author:
Klaus, Susan L.
Call Number:
307.121609 KLAUS
Publisher, Date:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2002.
Description:
xii, 207 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Subjects:
Planned communities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957 -- Contributions in city planning.
Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.)
Other Author:
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957.
Library of American Landscape History.
Contents:
"A garden city for America" -- All in the family : Olmsted's early career -- "A suburban town built on business principles": the foundation's experiment -- "The thoroughness with which things are done here" : planning and construction -- "The English type" : architectural and landscape design -- "Normal and usual social conditions" : marketing and management -- "A village of rare charm" : why We Chose Forest Hills Gardens -- The Legacy of Forest Hills Gardens.
ISBN:
155849314X