Contents – March 2024
CONTENTS – March 2024 Character towns, small and large, help build social cohesion, community connections, civic pride and […]
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES, CONTENTS
Frederick Law Olmsted
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Contents – October 2023
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Special Features, VIDEOS
The Olmsted Conference
Beginning on American History TV, C-SPAN, aired a conference on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted,
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Overlooked No More: Louise Blanchard Bethune, Who Changed the Face of Buffalo.
From the NY Times Louise Blanchard Bethune is widely considered to have been the first American woman to become a
VIDEOS
The Olmsted Conference
Landscape architect Laurie Olin talks about Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture, and his impact on the
John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner.
From Amazon…John Nolen (1869–1937) was the first American to identify himself exclusively as a town and city planner. In 1903, at
BOOKS
“A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century” by Witold Rybczynski
From Amazon “In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me