Frederick Law Olmsted and the Design of Mount Royal Park, Montreal

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Title
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Design of Mount Royal Park, Montreal
Abstract
The author points out that while American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted is best known for his magnum opus -- Central Park in New York City -- he created many other interesting parks, none more interesting that Montreal’s Mount Royal Park. Interesting for several reasons, the author explains: Mount Royal represents Olmsted at a more mature stage in his career than does Central Park; it was a rather special example of design of an open space under difficult physical, political, and economic conditions; and it illustrates in a specific way Olmsted's theories of landscape architecture as uniquely defined sociological and aesthetic assumptions.
Publication
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume
Vol. 26
Issue
no. 3
Pages
163-171
Date
October 1967
Language
en
Citation
Murray, A. L. “Frederick Law Olmsted and the Design of Mount Royal Park, Montreal.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 26, no. 3 (October 1967): 163–171.
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