登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted
其他書名
The California Frontier, 1863–1865
出版Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990-06
主題Architecture / LandscapeHistory / United States / 19th Century
ISBN08018388519780801838859
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JZZ8LW0p21EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As general manager of the Mariposa Estate, Olmsted undertook to run the largest gold-mining operation in the country at the time. While there, he carefully observed frontier society and the stages of its development. His letters contain many vignettes of frontier life, as do two previously unpublished works--a series of chapters, some incomplete, dealing with the influence of emigration and the frontier on American society, and a study of the Mariposa Estate as "a frontier community of the present day"... Olmsted's letters and journals describe summer camping trips to Yosemite Valley and his work as head of the first commission for managing the public reservation there. The volume also contains the four reports that Olmsted wrote for major design projects in California: the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove reservation, a park system for San Francisco, Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, and the campus of the College of California in Berkeley.