num_pages: 378
description: Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ethan Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context. Despite the difficulties now confronting the parks, their continued ability to attract millions of visitors suggests that their creators succeeded in presenting a captivating vision of a once-wild America.
language: English
title: Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service
titlecomplete: Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service
genres: Preservation
ratings_count: 9
publisher: University of Nebraska Press