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Displaying the plan at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Olmsted declared Buffalo \"\"the best planned city, as to streets, public places, and grounds, in the United States, if not in the world.\"\"  Olmsted and Vaux dissolved their historic partnership in 1872, but Olmsted continued his association with the Queen City of the Lakes, designing additional parks and laying out important sites within the growing metropolis. When Niagara Falls was threatened by industrial development, he led a campaign to protect the site and in 1885 succeeded in persuading New York to create the Niagara Reservation, the present Niagara Falls State Park. Two years later, Olmsted and Vaux teamed up again, this time to create a plan for the area around the Falls, a project the two grand masters regarded as \"\"the most difficult problem in landscape architecture to do justice to.\"\"  In this book Francis R. Kowsky illuminates this remarkable constellation of projects. 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Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Winner, American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e During the 1930s, the state park movement and the National Park Service expanded public access to scenic American places, especially during the era of the New Deal. However, under severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, African Americans were routinely and officially denied entrance to these supposedly shared sites. In response, advocacy groups pressured the National Park Service to provide some facilities for African Americans. William E. 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O'Brien's remarkable work of scholarship makes it possible for us, finally, to understand this formerly obscured category of American parks.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e --Ethan Carr, author of Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52471977771281,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52471978426641,"sku":"NLS9781952620249","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781952620249.jpg?v=1759837076"},{"product_id":"arthur-a-shurcliff-book-elizabeth-hope-cushing-9781952620232","title":"Arthur A. Shurcliff","description":"In 1928, Arthur A. 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