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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.

Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service

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    Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
    Publication Date: 01/08/1999
    ISBN13: 9780803263833, 978-0803263833
    ISBN10: 080326383X

    Number of Pages: 378

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    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.

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