The report that accompanied Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s winning 1858 design for Central Park, reissued in 1868. It walks through the proposed park ground by ground, from the promenade and the old Arsenal to lakes, drives and walks, explaining how the rocky, uneven site would become a rural landscape in the heart of the city.
A founding document of American landscape architecture for anyone who loves Central Park. Download the free EPUB.