Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), better known as an architect, is most remembered as Olmsted's partner i...

Frank Albert Waugh (1869-1943) was one of the first practitioners to conceive of a history of Ame...

Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of improvements for Bu...

In 1883, Frederick Law Olmsted moved his home and office from New York City to the Boston suburb ...

One of the foremost landscape architects of the early twentieth century, Fletcher Steele (1885-19...

A few years after marrying tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds, young Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880-1...

As superintendent of planting in Central Park and landscape architect to New York City for nearly...

When it was founded in 1860, Chicago's Graceland was hailed as the most 'modern' cemetery in exis...

Through his many books and in the Horticulturist, the nation's first journal about landscape gard...

Carol Grove chronicles Englishman Henry Shaw's remarkable story, from his early love of plants to...

In 1928, Arthur A. Shurcliff (1870-1957) began what became one of the most important examples of ...

In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison shares six decades of experience as a teacher and a design...

One of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs ...

Robert Morris Copeland (1830-1874) was one of a small number of American landscape practitioners ...

This award-winning book offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins o...

Robert E. Grese gathers together writings on nature-based landscape design by some of the country...

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Robin Karson explores the development of a distinctly Americ...

For sixty years, Fletcher Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art, designing nearly...

Garrett Eckbo (1910-1996) was one of the most highly respected and influential American modernist...

In this richly illustrated volume, Susan L. Klaus presents the history of Forest Hills Gardens, a...

'Stephenson offers a richly developed biographical portrait of Nolen interwoven with a detailed d...

H. W. S. Cleveland (1814-1900) first explored his 'organic' design approach in 1855 at Sleepy Hol...

Beginning in the 1930s, the state park movement sought to expand public access to scenic places. ...

During the 1930s, the state park movement and the National Park Service expanded public access to...

After World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet funding re...

A different narrative of the founding of the national park system.For far too long, all the credi...

'This volume is reprinted from the first edition of New towns for old by John Nolen. Published by...

By 1988 the New York Botanical Garden was in serious trouble--endowments depleted, fundraising in...

The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a co...

Before becoming a landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) visited southern England...

Over the course of four decades, Marjorie Cautley (1891-1954) became the first woman landscape ar...

Nature, Design, and Health is internationally renowned landscape architect David Kamp's personal ...

This is a groundbreaking study of the design and history of Olmsted's most mature expression of u...

Boston-based landscape architect Warren H. Manning (1860-1938) forged an innovative approach to c...

Founded in 1739 as a Christian mission, Stockbridge grew over the decades as New Englanders were ...