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A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens

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 | #2097158 in Books |  Univ of Massachusetts Pr |  2002-06-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.26 x.81 x7.28l,1.74 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

 | Frederick Law Olmsted Jr | city planning in the US | planning for forest hills gardens

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Forest Hills Gardens, An American Garden Suburb|By Alan Gregg|The book was very comprehensive and well researched, however I would have liked to have seen more architectural renderings and photos of Forest Hills Gardens from it's earliest inception of planning. It's a fine read and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in early community planning in the US, and how| |"Klaus has produced an exemplary short architectural monograph; succinct, eloquent, contextual, and copiously illustrated. . ."―Choice||"Forest Hills Gardens has been little studied by modern historians. Everyone knows of it, but the details of its pl

"Bright, cheerful houses, well arranged, well trimmed lawns, hedging carefully cut . . . distinctly joyous," wrote architectural critic Herbert Croly in 1914 about the Forest Hills Gardens community in Queens, New York. The New York Tribune agreed, reporting that the place was a "modern Garden of Eden, a fairy tale too good to be true."

Conceived as an experiment that would apply the new "science" of city planning to a suburban setting, Forest Hills Gardens was c...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens   |  Susan Klaus. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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