Photographer Stanley Greenberg’s new book takes as its subjects those aspects of Olmsted landscapes that took decades to come into their own — the trees.
Frederick Law Olmsted
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Montrealers Stumped After City Commissions Pricey Tree Sculptures
A public art project to put granite sculptures of trees in a park is blossoming into a major controversy in Montreal.
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Restoring Central Park’s 19th-Century Arches to Combat Its Traffic Chaos
Two Central Park pedestrians were killed in collisions with bicycles last year, devastating signs of the increasing chaos of its intersections.
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Better than Central Park: Olmsted and Vaux’s Brooklyn Masterpiece
While we may not participate in miniature yacht races or have games of lawn tennis, the experience of visitors today to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park isn’t radically different from when it first opened in 1867.