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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Frederick Law Olmsted"”.
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The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space
… In the latter half of the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted led a nationwide implementation of "Victorian" parks. These parks featured broad expanses of turf, waterways, and trees. Olmsted and the other Victorian park leaders designed the parks to cultivate Victorian values of …
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Measured shadows of Thomas Jefferson: A transit from amateur landscape gardening to professional landscape architecture
… canonical figures as Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Calvert Vaux by fifty years. Landscape architecture and the United States share a material and symbolic foundation in Jefferson, whose philosophy promoted a sense of eternal nascence from the ground up, emphasizing freedom …
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The urban garden : Port Alliance, Texas
… and Rock Creek Park in washington, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and the growth of the cities around them. Imbedded in the histories of the parks and their cities are strategies for the development of a new town on the plains of north Texas around an airport named Alliance. A regional park …
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The Thickness of Landscape, horizontally and vertically considered
… the park system it was mapping for Washington. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was appointed to landscape the tract, a task completed in 1920. Closed to the public since WWII, the site was abandoned when its operation ended. This thesis looks at its future by exploring the thickness of landscape and …
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Design Process to Integrate Natural and Human Systems
… like the "Emerald Necklace" designed by Frederick Law Olmsted or Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord by Peter Latz. Most of the projects still have only one purpose: they are either reserved for conservation as are the great national parks, or are planned for recreation or development that …
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The Ghost of Olmsted: Nature, History & Urban Park Restoration in Boston's Emerald Necklace
… series of parks and parkways designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903). Originally built to meet a particular set of aesthetic landscape tastes, over time this park system changed to meet the recreational needs of visitors. Throughout, the Emerald Necklace has served the interests …
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Amending the Capitol
… completed during the American Civil War in 1863. Frederick Law Olmsted added a large terrace to the building as a part of his landscape in 1892. Olmsted's terrace was the last major addition to the Architecture of the Capitol Building and the icon of American government has been largely maintained …
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Landscape, madness, and state: The emerging insane asylum system of nineteenth-century New York State
Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system. Author extended embargo through thesis office (12/7/2021).