David Schuyler is a professor of American studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America and coeditor of three volumes of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, the most recent of which is The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company, 1865-1874, all available from Johns Hopkins.

The best single volume on nineteenth-century park development, and no existing work describes the origins and evolution of the naturalistic vision as capably as The New Urban Landscape. Moreover, Schuyler handles his subject with admirable economy and grace. Reviews in American History An important contribution to our understanding of a design perspective that fostered a strong American heritage of urban parks and suburban spaces. -- Mary Corbin Sies Journal of American History

• Part I. Changing Conceptions of Urban FormChapter 1. Flawed Visions: The Lessons of Washington and New YorkChapter 2. Toward a Redefinition of Urban Form and CultureChapter 3. The Didactic Landscape: Rural CemeteriesPart II. The Evolution of the Urban ParkChapter 4. The Ideology of the Public ParkChapter 5. The Naturalistic Landscape: Central ParkChapter 6. Cities and Parks: The Lessons of Central ParkChapter 7. Parks, Parkways, and Park SystemsPart III. The New Urban LandscapeChapter 8. Urban Decentralization and the Domestic LandscapeChapter 9. The New City: A House with Many RoomsChapter 10. Transformation: The Neoclassical CityscapeNotesBibliographic EssayIndex