The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System

by Francis R. Kowsky

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

This award-winning book is the definitive account of the creation and development of the country's first urban park system.

Beginning in 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created a series of parks and parkways for Buffalo, New York, that drew national and international attention. The improvements augmented the city's original plan with urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952620279
• ISBN13: 9781952620270
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Library of American Landscape History
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 9.9"