Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service
- ISBN-10
- 080326383X
- ISBN-13
- 9780803263833
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 378
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-01-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Ethan Carr
Description
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
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