Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service

Acknowledged authors Carr, Ethan wrote Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service comprising 378 pages back in 1999. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 080326383X and 9780803263833. Since then Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ethan Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context. Despite the difficulties now confronting the parks, their continued ability to attract millions of visitors suggests that their creators succeeded in presenting a captivating vision of a once-wild America.