Olmsted in Canada His Influence, Disciples, and Legacy
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
30.03.2027
Abbildungen
82 illustrations
Verlag
University of Toronto PressSeitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B)
22,9/15,2 cm
Gewicht
1 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4875-5503-0
Olmsted in Canada provides a comprehensive history of the American Olmsted Firm's profound and often overlooked influence on the Canadian landscape. While Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. is world-renowned for co-designing New York's Central Park, his legacy in Canada has frequently been reduced to one design, Montreal's Mount Royal Park. This publication re-examines the breadth of the Olmsted Firm's Canadian works in the context of the Canadian urban reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It reveals how much of the Olmsted influence in Canada results not so much from the Firm's built projects as from the work of their so-called Canadian "disciples."
Central to this narrative are three Olmsted Canadian "disciples" – Frederick Todd, Rickson Outhet, and Gordon Culham. Pioneering landscape architects and town planners, they trained under the Olmsteds before establishing their own practices in Canada. This book examines how these men did not merely mimic their mentors, but instead adapted Olmstedian principles of place, service, and the power of scenery within the social, geographic, and urban contexts of a developing nation. Through extensive archival research, the discovery of previously undocumented personal papers, and numerous interviews, Pollock-Ellwand has traced their distinct professional trajectories, illustrating that these Olmsted alumni were innovators, not imitators. These "disciples" were adaptive practitioners who evolved the influence of Olmsted and helped to embed their shared legacy in the Canadian landscape.
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