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Frederick Law Olmsted

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  1. United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903)

How To Use Frederick Law Olmsted In A Sentence

  • Campanella begins by looking back to when planning was a profession known for visionaries such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Daniel Burnham, and John Nolan, and then describes how in the postwar years planners "aided and abetted some of the most egregious acts of urban vandalism in American history," i.e., urban renewal. Frank Gruber: Planning and Building for the Future, Dead: Round Up the Usual Suspects
  • The Stanfords engaged Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed landscape architect who created New York's Central Park, to design the physical plan for the university.
  • I'm fishing smack in the middle of New York City, on Central Park's Loeb Lake, and this cove is a tiny pocket in this 843-acre living work of art conceived 150 years ago by the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The Lure of Central Park
  • Similarly, Frederick Law Olmsted noted that many blacks in Richmond, Virginia, on a Sunday were “dressed with foppish extravagence, and many in the latest style of fashion.” A Renegade History of the United States
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