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William H. Jordy

The Genius of the Place

FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted

by Laura Wood Roper

Frederick Law Olmsted's New York

by Elizabeth Barlow, illustrative portfolio by William Alex

"Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape"

by Robert Smithson

Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park

edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., edited by Theodora Kimball

June 13, 1974 issue

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