- Foreword
- I. Ancient Times
- II. The Middle Ages
- III. The World of Islam: Cordoba, Seville
- IV. The World of Islam: Granada, Iran, Mogul India
- V. The Renaissance in Tuscany
- VI. Rome and the Cinquecento
- VII. Roman Villas of Villeggiatura
- VIII. Villa Lante and the Villino Farnese
- IX. Later Italian Villas, 1610–1785
- X. The Piazza in Italy
- XI. Beginnings in France
- XII. André le Nôtre: Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles
- XIII. England under the Tudors
- XIV. Seventeenth-Century England
- XV. The English “Landscape Gardening School”
- XVI. Transition to Public Service
- XVII. Pückler-Muskau and Alphand
- XVIII. Early American Backgrounds
- XIX. Olmsted and Vaux: Central Park and Prospect Park
- XX. Olmsted’s Work in Boston
- XXI. Two Pioneers: Weidenmann and Cleveland
- XXII. Charles Eliot and His Metropolitan Park System
- XXIII. Single-Track Eclecticism Takes Over
- XXIV. The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
- XXV. The Influence of Charles A. Plan
- XXVI. Founding of the American Society of Landscape Architects
- XXVII. The American Academy in Rome
- XXVIII. The McMillan Commission’s Plan of Washington
- XXIX. The City Beautiful Movement and City Planning
- XXX. The Country Place Era
- XXXI. English Town Planning and the “Garden City”
- XXXII. Town Planning in the United States: 1869–1915
- XXXIII. Town Planning in the United States: 1915–1929
- XXXIV. Town Planning in the United States: 1929–1948
- XXXV. The National Park System: 1872–1929
- XXXVI. The National Park System: 1929–1964
- XXXVII. The State Park Movement: 1864–1933
- XXXVIII State Parks and the Civilian Conservation Corps
- XXXIX. Parkways and Their Offspring
- XL. Urban Open-Space Systems
- XLI. Variations in Professional Practice
- XLII. Conservation of Natural Resources
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index

Design on the Land
The Development of Landscape Architecture
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$109.00 • £94.95 • €99.95
ISBN 9780674198708
Publication Date: 01/01/1971