Design on the land : the development of landscape architecture /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press,
c1971
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- I. Ancient times
- II. The Middle Ages
- III. The world of Islam: Cordoba, Seville
- IV. The world of Islam: Granada, Iran, Mogul India
- V. The Renaissance in Tuscany
- VI. Rome and the Cinquecento
- VII. Roman villas of Villeggiatura
- VIII. Villa Lante and the Villino Farnese
- IX. Later Italian villas. 1610-1785
- X. The Piazza in Italy
- XI. Beginnings in France
- XII. Andre le Notre: Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles
- XIII. England under the Tudors
- XIV. Seventeenth-Century England
- XV. The English "Landscape Gardening School"
- XVI. Transition to public service
- XVII. Puckler-Muskau and Alphand
- XVIII. Early American backgrounds
- XIX. Olmsted and Vaux: Central Park and Prospect Park
- XX. Olmsted's work in Boston
- XXI. Two pioneers: Weidenmann and Cleveland
- XXII. Charles Eliot and his Metropolitan Park system
- XXIII. Single-track eclecticism takes over
- XXIV. The world's Columbian exposition of 1893
- XXV. The influence of Charles A. Platt
- XXVI. Founding of the American society of landscape architects
- XXVII. The American Academy in Rome
- XXVIII. The McMillan Commission's plan of Washington
- XXIX. The city beautiful movement and city planning
- XXX. The Country Place Era
- XXXI. English town planning and the "Garden City"
- XXXII. Town planning in the United States: 1869-1915
- XXXIII. Town planning in the United States: 1915-1929
- XXXIV. Town planning in the United States: 1929-1948
- XXXV. The National Park System: 1872-1929
- XXXVI. The National Park System: 1929-1964
- XXXVII. The State Park Movement: 1864-1933
- XXX.VIII. State parks and the Civilian Conservation Corps
- XXXIX. Parkways and their offspring
- XL. Urban open-space systems
- XLI. Variations in professional practice
- XLII. Conservation f natural resources
- Select bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration credits
- Index