Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century

Title: Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century Author: Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 9780684824635 Publisher: Scribner Published: 1999 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens, Illinois's Riverside community, Asheville's Biltmore Estate, and Louisville's park system. He was a landscape architect before that profession was founded, designed the first large suburban community in the United States, foresaw the need for national parks, and devised one of the country's fir