Title: Landscape into Cityscape :
Authors: Olmsted, Frederick Law,; Fein, Albert.; Vaux, Calvert,; Croes, J. J. R.; Fein, Albert,; Croes, J. J. R.
Date: 1968
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Physical description: x, 490 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill., maps (part fold.), plans, ports. ; 22 cm. --
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: The beginning of Central Park; a fragment of autobiography. ca. 1877.--Description of a plan for the improvement of the Central Park: "Greensward." 1858; 1868 reprint.--Preliminary report to the Commissioners for laying out a park in Brooklyn, New York, 1866.--Report of the landscape architects and superintendents to the President of the Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 1868.--Report to the Staten Island Improvement Commission of a preliminary scheme of improvements. 1871.--Report of a preliminary survey of Rockaway Point. 1879. A preliminary study by the landscape architects of a design for the laying out of Morningside Park. 1873.--Report of the landscape architect upon the construction of Riverside Park and Avenue. 1875. Continued.--Preliminary report of the landscape architect and the civil and topographical engineer, upon the laying out of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards. Report accompanying a plan for laying out that part of the Twenty-fourth Ward, lying west of the Riverdale Road. 1876.--Report of the landscape architect and the civil and topographical Engineer, accompanying a plan for local steam transit routes in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards. 1877.--The spoils of the park; with a few leaves from the deep-laden notebooks of A wholly unpractical man. 1882.--General plan for the improvement of Morningside Park, 1887.
Notes: Twelve documents, of which nine are reports to governmental bodies, five prepared jointly with Calvert Vaux and two with J. James R. Croes.
Subject headings (LCSH): City planning--New York (State)--New York; Landscape architecture--New York (State)--New York.; Parks--New York (State)--New York