(Read free) A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
☆ Susan L. Klaus ☆
| #2451178 in Books | University of Massachusetts Press | 2004-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.96 x.58 x7.02l,1.32 | File Name: 155849443X | 224 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Very interesting|By loveromance|I love Forest Hills Gardens and really craved information on it. This was it. You have to really like architecture and architectural history to find the reading interesting I guess.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| birth of a neighborhood|By Michael Lewyn|This book discusses th||"Klaus has produced an exemplary short architectural monograph; succinct, eloquent, contextual, and copiously illustrated. . ."―Choice||"Forest Hills Gardens has been little studied by modern historians. Everyone knows of it, but the details of its p
"Bright, cheerful houses, well arranged, well trimmed lawns, hedging carefully cut . . . distinctly joyous," wrote architectural critic Herbert Croly in 1914 about the Forest Hills Gardens community in Queens, New York. The New York Tribune agreed, reporting that the place was a "modern Garden of Eden, a fairy tale too good to be true."
Conceived as an experiment that would apply the new "science" of city planning to a suburban setting, Forest Hills Gardens was ...
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