The Power of Scenery Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks【電子書籍】[ Dennis Drabelle ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Featured in the＜/strong＞ ***Wall Street Journal’***＜strong＞s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Finalist of the 2021 Marfield Prize＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” But where did the idea originate? Before Yellowstone, with nothing to put up against Europe’s cultural pearlsーits cathedrals, castles, and museumsーAmericans came to realize that their plenitude of natural wonders might compensate for the dearth of manmade attractions. That insight guided the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as he organized his thoughts on how to manage the wilderness park centered on Yosemite Valley, at first a state-owned precursor to the national park model of Yellowstone. Haunting his thoughts were the cluttered and carnival-like banks of Niagara Falls, which served as an oft-cited example of what should ＜em＞not＜/em＞ happen to a spectacular natural phenomenon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Olmsted saw city parks as vital to the pursui．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る