Frederick Law Olmsted and the Design of Mount Royal Park, Montreal
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Frederick Law Olmsted and the Design of Mount Royal Park, Montreal
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| 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.
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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Vol. 26
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no. 3
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163-171
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October 1967
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| Language |
en
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| 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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