Genius of Place The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

380 Pages·2011·5.923 MB·English

by  Justin Martin

Table of Contents

ALSO BY JUSTIN MARTIN
Title Page
Dedication
PHOTO CREDITS
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I - “An Enthusiast by Nature”
CHAPTER 1 - So Very Young
CHAPTER 2 - At Sea
CHAPTER 3 - Uncommon Friends
CHAPTER 4 - A Farmer and Finite
CHAPTER 5 - Two Pilgrimages

II - “The Cause of Future Freedom”
CHAPTER 6 - “The South ”
CHAPTER 7 - Tief Im Herzen Von Texas
CHAPTER 8 - A Red-Hot Abolitionist
CHAPTER 9 - The Literary Republic

III - “A People’s Pleasure-Ground”
CHAPTER 10 - “Is New York Really Not Rich Enough?”
CHAPTER 11 - Right Man, Right Place
CHAPTER 12 - A Park Is Born
CHAPTER 13 - Growling Green
CHAPTER 14 - Swans
IV - “Heroes Along with the Rest”
CHAPTER 15 - In Search of a Mission
CHAPTER 16 - In the Republic of Suffering
CHAPTER 17 - Antietam to Gettysburg
CHAPTER 18 - “The Country Cannot Spare You”

V - “There Seems to Be No Limit”
CHAPTER 19 - Gold Dust
CHAPTER 20 - Yosemite
CHAPTER 21 - Unsettled in the West

VI - “Where Talents and the Needs of the World Cross”
CHAPTER 22 - New Prospects
CHAPTER 23 - City Planning Buffalo and Chicago
CHAPTER 24 - Battling Boss Tweed, Splitting with Vaux
CHAPTER 25 - Blindness and Vision

VII - “I Have All My Life Been Considering Distant Effects”
CHAPTER 26 - A Troubled Wander Year
CHAPTER 27 - Stringing Emeralds
CHAPTER 28 - Saving Niagara, Designing Stanford
CHAPTER 29 - Big House in the Big Woods
CHAPTER 30 - A White City Dreamscape
CHAPTER 31 - “Before I Am the Least Prepared for It”
CHAPTER 32 - Fade

EPILOGUE
NOTES
INDEX
APPENDIX - The Olmsted Views
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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