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In the history of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted was a figure of heroic proportions, a man in whom great powers of intellect were combined with imaginative brilliance, a passionate heart, literary and artistic gifts, and a practical turn of mind. Yet though we honor him as the father-founder of the profession in the United States, it is important to remind ourselves that neither the style he worked in, nor the cause of urban environmental reform for which he became a leading spokesman, originated with him.
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Howett, C. (2014). Systems, Signs, Sensibilities: Sources for a New Landscape Aesthetic. In: Ndubisi, F.O. (eds) The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-491-8_17
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