Frederick Law Olmsted : designing the American landscape Preface As the twig is bent The art of landscape design Parks and park systems. Central Park New York ; Prospect Park Brooklyn ; South Park Chicago ; Mount Royal Montreal & Belle Isle Detroit ; Buffalo park system ; Boston park system ; Rochester park system ; Louisville park system Residential communities. Riverside Illinois ; Sudbrook Maryland ; Druid Hills Atlanta Academic campuses and residential institutions. Lawrenceville School New Jersey ; Stanford University ; Hartford Retreat New York State Asylum Buffalo ; McLean Asylum Belmont Massachusetts Designing for domesticity. Fairsted Brookline Massachusetts ; Moraine Farm Beverly Massachusetts The collaboration with H. H. Richardson. Oakes Ames Memorial Hall North Easton Massachusetts ; Langwater Estate North Easton Massachusetts ; Ephraim Gurney House Beverly Massachusetts ; Robert Treat Paine House Stonehurst Waltham Massachusetts The United States Capitol grounds Scenic preservation. Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove ; Niagara Falls Landscape architecture for the semiarid west. Public pleasure grounds for San Francisco ; Mountain View Cemetery Oakland ; The College of California Berkeley ; Stanford University Palo Alto ; Lake Wauconda Perry Park Colorado Biltmore Estate The ongoing legacy. Public park systems : Seattle Washington ; Branch Brook Park Essex County New Jersey ; Los Angeles region ; San Francisco East Bay cities ; Scenic reservations : Point Lobos California. A landscape architect city planner and creative genius who transformed the American landscape Frederick Law Olmsted was a man of passionate vision and drive. He defined the profession of landscape architecture and designed Americas most outstanding landscapes many gorgeously illustrated here including New Yorks Central Park Brooklyns Prospect Park the U. S. Capitol grounds and the Biltmore Estate. During a remarkable forty year career that began in the mid 1800s Olmsted created the first major urban parks and park systems in this country along with widely influential suburban residential communities. He was a pivotal figure in the movement to create scenic reservations and national parks such as Niagara Falls Yosemite and Yellowstone and he contributed to the design of many academic campuses including Stanford University. A comprehensive view of the man and his work this updated edition of the Rizzoli classic marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of this seminal American landscape designer and includes new photography of Olmsteds masterworks Central and Prospect Parks as well as a new introduction and new final chapter by the author that examines Olmsteds ongoing influence.