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Catalogue Number: 041726
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Architecture
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2014
Running Time: 60
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
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Catalogue Number: 041726
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Architecture
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2014
Running Time: 60
Frederick Law Olmsted was among the first to regard landscape architecture as a profession and a fine art - in fact, with Calvert Vaux he virtually created that profession. To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
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