Landscape into cityscape ; Frederick Law Olmsted's plans for a greater New York City /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Other Authors: Fein, Albert, Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895, Croes, J. J. R. (John James Robertson), 1834-1906
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1968]
Series:Cornell reprints in urban studies.
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Description
Item Description:Twelve documents, of which nine are reports to governmental bodies, five prepared jointly with Calvert Vaux and two with J. James R. Cross.
1873.--Report of the landscape architect upon the construction of Riverside Park and Avenue. 1875.--Preliminary report of the landscape architect and the civil and topographical engineer, upon the laying out of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards. Report accompanying a plan for laying out that part of the Twenty-fourth Ward, lying west of the Riverdale Road. 1876.--Report of the accompanying architect and the civil and topographical Engineer, accompanying a plan for local steam transit routes in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards. 1877.--The spoils of the park; with a few leaves from the deep-laden notebooks of A wholly unpractical man. 1882.--General plan for the improvement of Morningside Park, 1887.
Physical Description:x, 490 pages : illustrations, maps (part folded), plans, portraits ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliographical footnotes.