Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service
By (author): "Ethan Carr"
Publish Date:
March 1st 1998
ISBN080326383X
ISBN139780803263833
AsinWilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service
Original titleWilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service
Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ethan Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context. Despite the difficulties now confronting the parks, their continued ability to attract millions of visitors suggests that their creators succeeded in presenting a captivating vision of a once-wild America.