Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American LandscapeTraces the life of the influential landscape architect, and looks at his designs for public parks. |
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... create spaces that had great psychological power and carefully planned every detail so as to achieve that purpose ... created an efficient inspection system of army camps , and helped to reorganize the army medical corps . Drawing from a ...
... create spaces that had great psychological power and carefully planned every detail so as to achieve that purpose ... created an efficient inspection system of army camps , and helped to reorganize the army medical corps . Drawing from a ...
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... creating such passages of scenery , although he felt no assurance that the wet , cold soil could ever produce splendid ... create a landscape that would produce a response of an elemental kind . He had experienced the awe , the sense of ...
... creating such passages of scenery , although he felt no assurance that the wet , cold soil could ever produce splendid ... create a landscape that would produce a response of an elemental kind . He had experienced the awe , the sense of ...
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... creating a basin with a tidal gate , but the two major streams that fed into the Fens would cause devastation to the ... create a soft , vegetated edge around the basin , he had to solve two problems : how to provide adequate space to ...
... creating a basin with a tidal gate , but the two major streams that fed into the Fens would cause devastation to the ... create a soft , vegetated edge around the basin , he had to solve two problems : how to provide adequate space to ...
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