Today, Olmsted is known as the father of landscape architecture, a pioneer who created some of the nation’s most beautiful green spaces—most famously Central Park and Prospect Park ...

Olmsted’s statement contextualizes the kind of committed prescience for which the definitive designer of many outstanding urban parklands of the United States — including Central Park in New ...

Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned the space as a democratic refuge for all New Yorkers that would foster “a sense of enlarged freedom” and provide a place to escape the ...

On Wednesday, Manhattan’s top socialites and a slew of stars put on their fanciest fascinators for the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon — ...

Olmsted’s best ideas were often simple ones: the sunken crossroads of Central Park that help visitors forget the noisy city around them, the meandering trails at Niagara Falls that feature ...

Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks that include Central Park in New York City. When Layla George took the helm of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy seven years ago, she set out to learn what she cou ...

The publisher’s description of the book lays that out, saying: "The park’s chief architect, Frederick L. Olmsted, “wanted Central Park to be a democratic space that allows all New Yorkers to ...

“So today we are fulfilling Olmsted and Vaux's original vision for a great democratic space in a bold new way,” Central Park Conservancy President Betsy Smith said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Milwaukee's Washington Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York's Central Park and the U.S. Capitol Grounds in Washington D.C., has been named a Historic Landmark in ...