The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System (Designing the American Park)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1625340060 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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The responsibility of an enlightened public and their leaders is to balance development pressures and the need to expand the tax base with humanity's need for relaxation and enjoyment. Kowsky's masterful book makes the visionary landscape and planning principles Olmsted and Vaux pioneered in Buffalo clear, with the hope that restoration efforts will once again allow it to become the best planned city in the world."Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Social and political background is woven into Kowsky's narrative of landscape design, and the color images crea
Interesting Christine E. Pyne What great Buffalo history and thorough presentation of Olmsted and Buffalo's parks. It's a great coffee table book, but, moreso, it is easy and engaging reading, cover to cover. Not the dry book I feared it might be. I enjoyed it and will probably give it as a gift many times over.. "A Beautiful and Useful Book" according to Lowell Thing. Having read the author's biography of Calvert Vaux, I looked forward to this book with its focus on Olmsted, the other half of the designers who collaborated on the invention of New York's Central Park and so many other parks across the nation (although it is Olmsted who must be given the most credit with convincing cities to plan beautiful parks that all their citizens could enjoy). My wife and I were. "A very nice collection of photographs and drawings that highlight and showcase" according to Paul Schilder. A very nice collection of photographs and drawings that highlight and showcase the work of Olmsted and Vaux in Buffalo. It shows both the beginning and evolution of the park system, with wonderful pictures of the times.
Kowsky is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus. . Francis R
Utilizing original plans, drawings, photographs, and copious numbers of reports and letters, he brings new perspective to this vast undertaking, analyzing it as a cohesive expression of the visionary landscape and planning principles that Olmsted and Vaux pioneered.Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: lalh/. When Niagara Falls was threatened by industrial development, he led a campaign to protect the site and in 1885 succeeded in persuading New York to create the Niagara Reservation, the present Niagara Falls State Park. Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national and international attention. Displaying the plan at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Olmsted declared Buffalo "the best planned city, as to streets, public places, and grounds, in the United States, if not in the world."Olmsted and Vaux dissolved their historic partnership in 1872, but Olmsted continued his association with the Queen City of the Lakes, designing additional