Main entry:

Martin, Justin.

Title & Author:

Genius of place : the life of Frederick Law Olmsted / Justin Martin.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, ©2011.

Description:

xiv, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A Merloyd Lawrence book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why Olmsted matters -- "An Enthusiast by Nature" : Growing Up, 1822-1851. So very young ; At sea ; Uncommon friends ; A farmer and finite ; Two pilgrimages -- "The Cause of Future Freedom" : Southern Travels and Journalism, 1852-1857. "The South" ; Tief im herzen von Texas ; A red-hot abolitionist ; The literary republic -- "A People's Pleasure-Ground" : Conceiving Central Park, 1857-1861. "Is New York really not rich enough?" ; Right man, right place ; A park is born ; Growling green ; Swans -- "Heroes Along With the Rest": Civil War Service, 1861-1863. In search of a mission ; In the republic of suffering ; Antietam to Gettysburg ; "The country cannot spare you" -- "There Seems to be No Limit" : California, 1863-1865. Gold dust ; Yosemite ; Unsettled in the West -- "Where Talents and the Needs of the World Cross" : Shaping the Nation, 1865-1877. New prospects ; City planning: Buffalo and Chicago ; Battling Boss Tweed, splitting with Vaux ; Blindness and vision -- "I Have All My Life Been Considering Distant Effects" : Summits and Sorrows, 1877-1903. A troubled wander year ; Stringing emeralds ; Saving Niagara, designing Stanford ; Big house in the big woods ; A white city dreamscape ; "Before I am the least prepared for it" ; Fade -- Olmsted's wild garden -- The Olmsted views.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Describes the life of the landscape architect responsible for New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace including his lesser-known time spent as an influential journalist, early voice for the environment and abolitionist, all overshadowed by a tragic personal life.

Resources:
Connect to e-book on ProQuest Ebook Central

ISBN:

9780306818813 (hc. ; alk. paper)
0306818817 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780306819841 (ebook)
0306819848

Subject:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903
Landscape architects United States Biography.
Social reformers United States Biography.
City planning United States History 19th century.
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis Biographies.
Réformateurs sociaux États-Unis Biographies.
City planning.
Landscape architects.
Social reformers.
Landscape architecture United States Biography.
Reformers United States Biography.
City planning United States History.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
collective biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274609
Call No.: BIB 208431
Status: Available