Greenscapes : Olmsted's Pacific Northwest / Joan Hockaday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hockaday, Joan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920.

Landscape architects--United States--Biography.

Landscape architects.

Parks.

History.

City planning.

Landscape design.

Landscape architecture.

Travel.

United States.

Landscape architects--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.

Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920--Influence.

Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920--Travel--Northwest, Pacific.

Landscape architecture--Northwest, Pacific--History.

Landscape design--Northwest, Pacific--History.

City planning--Northwest, Pacific--History.

Parks--Northwest, Pacific--History.

Northwest, Pacific--History, Local.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix pages, ii unnumbered pages, 162 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Olmsted's Pacific Northwest

Place of Publication:

Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, [2009]

Contents:

[Foreword]: The Harvard letters of John Charles Olmsted / Mary Daniels

Introduction: A life led in the shadow

First Northwest impressions

Portland Exposition, parks, & clients

Oregon college campuses

Seattle parks & boulevards

Seattle private clients

University campus & Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Spokane & the Inland Northwest

Vancouver Island : the uplands

Final Northwest visits

Afterword: John Charles Olmsted's Northwest legacy / David C. Streatfield

Appendix A: 1903 Portland parks report : excerpts

Appendix B: 1903 Seattle parks report : overview and excerpts

Appendix C: 1908 Spokane parks report : overview and excerpts

Appendix D: Sample correspondence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [157]) and index.

ISBN:

9780874222982

0874222982

OCLC:

231588998