Eden by Design The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Regional Plan for Los Angeles Region

Name: Eden by Design The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Regional Plan for Los Angeles Region
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ISBN: 9780520224155

ISBN-10: 0520224159

ISBN-13: 9780520224155

Edition: 2000

Authors: William F. Deverell, Greg Hise, Laurie Olin

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In 1930 the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region," to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and public beaches. It is a model of ambitious, intelligent, sensitive planningcommissioned at a time when land was available, if only the city planners had had the fortitude and vision to act on its recommendations. "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches" has become a highly valued but difficult-to-find document. In this book, Greg Hise and William Deverell…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 323
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Lawrence Halprin was an American landscape architect, designer, and teacher. Laurie Olin is Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and Principal of the Olin Partnership, a landscape architecture firm in Philadelphia. He is coauthor of Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.



Preface to a Master Plan


Private Power, Public Space


Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region


A Report submitted to the Citizens' Committee on Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches



The Power of Diction


An Interview with Laurie Olin



Index