A Clearing in the Distance Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 06/01/1999
Like Melville, Olmsted went to China on a merchant ship when he was twenty. He cofounded The Nation magazine and wrote early and often against slavery. He ran the largest mine in California. He almost single-handedly and successfully lobbied to make Yosemite a national park. He created the first planned suburban community in America. He ran the United States Sanitation Commission during the Civil War, the precursor to the Red Cross. And, of course, there are the parks -- Central and Prospect parks in New York City, the Boston park system, the grounds of Stanford University and the United States Capital, and more. "He was one of very few people who understood the American city, its possibilities and its limits, " Rybczynski writes. "He knew that American cities were too changeable and too volatile to be tamed. He didn't try. Instead, his magisterial parks and parkways were large enough to hold their own. That is why his landscapes have lasted as long as they have. The ideas they epitomize about people, culture, society, civilization, are simply too powerful."
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