Greenscapes
Subtitle: Olmsted's Pacific Northwest
By: Joan Hockaday.
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pullman, WA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874222982
Subjects: Olmsted, John Charles, -- 1852-1920; Olmsted, John Charles, -- 1852-1920 -- Influence; Olmsted, John Charles, -- 1852-1920 -- Travel -- Northwest, Pacific; Landscape architects -- United States -- Biography; Landscape architects -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography; Landscape architecture -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Landscape design -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; City planning -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Parks -- Northwest, Pacific -- History; Northwest, Pacific -- History, Local
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: John Charles Olmsted; title: A life led in the shadow; title: Foreword: Harvard letters of John Charles Olmsted; title: First Northwest impressions; title: Portland Exposition, parks, and clients; title: Seattle parks; title: Seattle private clients; title: University of Washington and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition; title: Spokane and the Inland Northwest; title: Vancouver Island : the uplands; title: Final Northwest visits; title: Afterword: John Charles Olmsted's Northwest legacy; title: Appendix A: Park reports; title: Seattle, Portland, Spokane, and Walla Walla; title: Appendix B: Campus reports; title: University of Washington, Whitman, University of Idaho, Oregon State, McMinnville; title: Appendix C: Olmsted office timeline.