Community by Design

Community by Design

Author: Keith N. Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558499768

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Brookline before Olmsted -- 2. Olmsted before Brookline -- 3. Henry Hobson Richardson -- 4. The Design Community -- 5. Charles Sprague Sargent -- 6. The Planning Context -- 7. The Institutional Context -- 8. The Neighborhood Context -- Conclusion: Landscape into Townscape -- Appendix A: Olmsted Design Projects in Brookline -- Appendix B: Architects and Landscape Architects in Brookline -- Appendix C: Statement as to Professional Methods and Charges, 1902 -- Appendix D: Collaborative Projects of H.H. Richardson and F.L. Olmsted Sr. -- Appendix E: Collaborative Commissions of the Olmsted Office in Brookline -- Appendix F: Brookline Projects of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge -- Appendix G: Brookline Projects of Peabody & Stearns -- Appendix H: The Brookline Commissions of Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul -- Appendix I: Town Green and Green Hill Properties with Olmsted Connections -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.


Genius of Place

Genius of Place

Author: Justin Martin

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2011-05-31

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0306818817

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This definitive, first full-scale biography of Olmsted--famed designer of New York's Central Park--reveals him also as a brilliant political and social reformer.