Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture

Norman T. Newton

La Editorial, UPR, 1971 - Architecture - 714 pages

With the role of the landscape architect increasing as it is in importance, this first comprehensive survey of the art and practice of landscape architecture fills a great need.

Norman T. Newton has included over 400 illustrations in his book, which conveys a basic understanding of the aims and scope of landscape architecture and offers visual analyses of major historic works, each in the context of its own time.

The first third of the study is concerned with landscape architecture in the Western world, mainly Europe, from ancient times to the mid-nineteenth century. But the major part of the work is devoted to the development of landscape architecture in the century that has passed since it acquired the status of a profession and an independent discipline.

Concentrating primarily on the United States, Mr. Newton reviews his subject from its beginnings in colonial days to the work of Olmsted, Vaux, Cleveland, Weidenmann, Eliot, Platt, and the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He discusses the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the "City Beautiful" movement and the growth of city planning, the Country Place Era, town planning in England and America, American national and state parks, parkways, urban open spaces, and recent variations in professional practice.

Mr. Newton concludes his book with a timely discussion of the vital role that landscape architecture plays in the conservation of natural resources and in protection of the environment.

Contents

• Ancient Times: 1
• The Middle Ages: 21
• Córdoba Seville: 30
• Granada Iran Mogul India: 40
• The Renaissance in Tuscany: 55
• Rome and the Cinquecento: 67
• Roman Villas of Villeggiatura: 81
• Villa Lante and the Villino Farnese: 99
• Later Italian Villas 16101785: 114
• The Piazza in Italy: 132
• Beginnings in France: 153
• VauxleVicomte and Versailles: 165
• England under the Tudors: 182
• SeventeenthCentury England: 194
• The English Landscape Gardening School: 207
• Transition to Public Service: 221
• PücklerMuskau and Alphand: 233
• Early American Backgrounds: 246
• Central Park and Prospect Park: 267
• Olmsteds Work in Boston: 290
• Weidenmann and Cleveland: 307
• Charles Eliot and His Metropolitan Park System: 318
• SingleTrack Eclecticism Takes Over: 337
• The Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893: 353
• The Influence of Charles A Platt: 372
• Founding of the American Society of Landscape Architects: 385
• The American Academy in Rome: 393
• The McMillan Commissions Plan of Washington: 400
• The City Beautiful Movement and City Planning: 413
• The Country Place Era: 427
• English Town Planning and the Garden City: 447
• Town Planning in the United States: 496
• 18721929: 517
• 19291964: 538
• 18641933: 555
• State Parks and the Civilian: 576
• Parkways and Their Offspring: 596
• Select Bibliography: 677
• Acknowledgments: 691
• Index: 703

Bibliographic information

• Title: Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture; Belknap Press
• Author: Norman T. Newton
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: La Editorial, UPR, 1971
• ISBN: 0674198700, 9780674198708
• Length: 714 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / General; Architecture / History / General; Architecture / Landscape