Modern Arcadia
Subtitle: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781558494435
Subjects: Landscape art & architecture; Architecture; New York; Landscape; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.
First sentence: MAROONED IN GOPHER PRAIRIE, Minnesota, in 1912, newly wed Carol Kennicott dreams of transforming "the unsparing unapologetic ugliness and the rigid straightness" of her village into something like the new "fairy-book suburb" of Forest Hills Gardens on Long Island, pictures of which had already found their way to her tiny public library on the American plain.