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

Title: The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System
Series: Designing the American Park
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press; Reprint edition (April 27, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1625342918
ISBN-13: 978-1625342911
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 9.9 inches

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. Displaying the plan at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Olmsted declared Buffalo “the best planned city, as to streets, public places, and grounds, in the United States, if not in the world.”

In this book Francis R. Kowsky illuminates this remarkable constellation of projects. Utilizing original plans, drawings, photographs, and copious numbers of reports and letters, he brings new perspective to this vast undertaking, analyzing it as a cohesive expression of the visionary landscape and planning principles that Olmsted and Vaux pioneered.

Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http://lalh.org/