The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system / / Francis R. Kowsky
| The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system / / Francis R. Kowsky |
| Autore | Kowsky Francis R. <1943-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press : , : Library of American Landscape History, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.78/3097471 |
| Collana | Designing the American park |
| Soggetto topico |
Parks - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century
Parks - New York (State) - Buffalo - Design and construction - History - 19th century City planning - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century Landscape design - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61376-261-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface / Ethan Carr -- Introduction: Olmsted and Vaux and the Progress of the American Park Movement -- The Creation of the Park System -- The Making of the Park -- The Front and Prospect Place -- The Parade -- Parkways, Circles, and Squares -- Parkside, Buffalo State Hospital, and Smaller Parks -- The Emancipation of Niagara -- South Park, Cazenovia Park, and Riverside Park -- Epilogue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463402203321 |
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| Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press : , : Library of American Landscape History, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system / / Francis R. Kowsky
| The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system / / Francis R. Kowsky |
| Autore | Kowsky Francis R. <1943-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press : , : Library of American Landscape History, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.78/3097471 |
| Collana | Designing the American park |
| Soggetto topico |
Parks - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century
Parks - New York (State) - Buffalo - Design and construction - History - 19th century City planning - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century Landscape design - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 1-61376-261-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface / Ethan Carr -- Introduction: Olmsted and Vaux and the Progress of the American Park Movement -- The Creation of the Park System -- The Making of the Park -- The Front and Prospect Place -- The Parade -- Parkways, Circles, and Squares -- Parkside, Buffalo State Hospital, and Smaller Parks -- The Emancipation of Niagara -- South Park, Cazenovia Park, and Riverside Park -- Epilogue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788494103321 |
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| Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press : , : Library of American Landscape History, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system / / Francis R. Kowsky
| The best planned city in the world : Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo park system / / Francis R. Kowsky |
| Autore | Kowsky Francis R. <1943-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press : , : Library of American Landscape History, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.78/3097471 |
| Collana | Designing the American park |
| Soggetto topico |
Parks - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century
Parks - New York (State) - Buffalo - Design and construction - History - 19th century City planning - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century Landscape design - New York (State) - Buffalo - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 1-61376-261-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface / Ethan Carr -- Introduction: Olmsted and Vaux and the Progress of the American Park Movement -- The Creation of the Park System -- The Making of the Park -- The Front and Prospect Place -- The Parade -- Parkways, Circles, and Squares -- Parkside, Buffalo State Hospital, and Smaller Parks -- The Emancipation of Niagara -- South Park, Cazenovia Park, and Riverside Park -- Epilogue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826345903321 |
Kowsky Francis R. <1943->
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| Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press : , : Library of American Landscape History, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Country, park & city : the architecture and life of Calvert Vaux / / Francis R. Kowsky
| Country, park & city : the architecture and life of Calvert Vaux / / Francis R. Kowsky |
| Autore | Kowsky Francis R. <1943-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 pages) |
| Disciplina |
712.5097471
720.92 |
| Soggetto topico | Architects - United States |
| ISBN |
1-280-84371-3
9786610843718 0-19-802746-X 0-19-534685-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; 1 What Is a Young Architect to Do, and How Is He to Get On?: 1824-1850; 2 Il Buono e il Bello: 1850-1852; 3 The Inexhaustible Demand for Rural Residences: 1853-1856; 4 All That Human Intelligence Can Achieve in Adorning and Beautifying the Earth: 1857-1858; 5 The Only Thing That Gives Me Much Encouragement That I Have in Me the Germ of an Architect: The Terrace; 6 Possible Together, Impossible to Either Alone: 1859-1865; 7 Country Life in Comparison with City Life...a Question of Delicate Adjustment: 1866-1872; 8 Always Light-Armed, Cheerful, and Ready for a Run to the Nearest Summit: 1873-1880; 9 A School of Romanticists Even Then Fast Vanishing: 1881-1895; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784730203321 |
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2003 | ||
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