Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903, Vol. 2: Central Park as a Work of Art and as a Great Municipal Enterprise, 1853-1895 (Classic R PDF Download

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781390899610
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Excerpt from Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903, Vol. 2: Central Park as a Work of Art and as a Great Municipal Enterprise, 1853-1895 The Olmsted and Vaux papers relating to Central Park comprise numerous reports published in official documents or as pamphlets - most of which have long been out of circulation - and in addition many unpublished letters, notes, and drafts - most of these latter from Mr. Olmsted's hand - written with greater frankness and free dom than the papers which were prepared with a view to publication at the time. All these Central Park papers, which form Part Two of the present Volume, have been grouped by subject (as the Table of Contents will show) in order to give a more logical and consistent presentation of the designers' conception of the general design, of planting, of architectural features, and of the use and keeping of the Park. The most important of the papers have been given in full, many of the lesser have been abbreviated. Preceding each' group will be found a little editorial introduction, which sets the papers somewhat in relation to each other and to the history of the Park. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.