Overview Article in Grove Art Online
- "Boston"History and Urban Development (emphasis on Architecture)..
Art Life and Organization.
Centre of Production: Furniture; Metalwork; Pewter, copper, brass, and other base metals; Ceramics.
Frederick Law Olmsted
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Online - Library of Congress "The papers of farmer, writer, reformer, landscape architect, urban and suburban planner, and conservationist Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) consist of approximately 24,000 items (roughly 47,300 images), most of which were digitized from 60 reels of previously produced microfilm. The collection, spanning from 1777 to 1952, with the bulk dating 1838-1903, contains materials on both Olmsted's private and professional life."
- Frederic Law Olmsted National Historic Site His home and design office in Brookline, Massachusetts. Designing an American Landscape.
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (SB483.B73 Z34 )Publication Date: 1992
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years by Location: Mugar Memorial Library SB470.O5 A2 1977 v. 8Publication Date: 2013
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Public Parks Parkways and Park Systems by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (SB470.O5 A3 1997 Vol. 1)Publication Date: 1997- The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (SB470.O5 A3 1997 Vol. 2)Publication Date: 1997
“Boston: Parks and Parkways–a Green Ribbon” in Civilizing American Cities: A Selection of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Writings on City Landscapes by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (HT167 .F71 )Publication Date: 1970Pages 221-262- The early Boston years, 1882-1890 [The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted] by
Frederick Law Olmsted relocated from New York to the Boston area in the early 1880s. With the help of his stepson and partner, John Charles Olmsted, his professional office grew to become the first of its kind: a modern landscape architecture practice with park, subdivision, campus, residential, and other landscape design projects throughout the country. During the period covered in this volume, Olmsted and his partners, apprentices, and staff designed the exceptional park system of Boston and Brookline--including the Back Bay Fens, Franklin Park, and the Muddy River Improvement. Olmsted also designed parks for New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, and Detroit and created his most significant campus plans for Stanford University and the Lawrenceville School. The grounds of the U.S. Capitol were completed with the addition of the grand marble terraces that he designed as the transition to his surrounding landscape. Many of Olmsted's most important private commissions belong to these years. He began his work at Biltmore, the vast estate of George Washington Vanderbilt, and designed Rough Point at Newport, Rhode Island, and several other estates for members of the Vanderbilt family. Olmsted wrote more frequently on the subject of landscape design during these years than in any comparable period. He would never provide a definitive treatise or textbook on landscape architecture, but the articles presented in this volume contain some of his most mature and powerful statements on the practice of landscape architecture.
Location: Mugar Stacks SB470.O5 A2 1977 v. 8Publication Date: 2013
Breathing Room: Mapping Boston's Green Spaces, A Virtual Exhibition--Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library
- Breathing Room: Mapping Boston's Green Spaces - A Virtual ExhibitionPast exhibition at the Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library, March 24, 2018 through September 30, 2018
Parks
- Esplanade Association “Working to restore and enhance the historic Charles River Esplanade.”
- Arnold Arboretum: an historic park partnership . Sheila Connor, Horticultural Research Archivist at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain.
The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Boston's Public Parks and Gardens by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (F73.65 .C74 2002 )Publication Date: 2002- Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (SB483.B73 Z34 )Publication Date: 1992
Boston's Emerald Necklace by Location: Mugar Memorial Library (SB482.M42 B67 2007 )Publication Date: 2007
Boston Common by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (F73.65 .B67 2005 )Publication Date: 2005
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchboo by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (ND1839.P74 A4 1981 )Publication Date: 1981
Boston's Green Spaces and Gardens by Location: Mugar Memorial Library (F73.65 .M82 2010 )Publication Date: 2010
The Garden Squares of Boston by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (SB466.U65 B6728 2003 )Publication Date: 2003- To Dwell Is to Garden: A History of Boston's Community Gardens by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (SB457.3 .W37 1987 )Publication Date: 1987
Vita Brevis: History, Landscape, and Art, 1998-2003 by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (N8845.B67 M43 2004 )Publication Date: 2004
Land Use & Natural History
- Boston: Project for Public Spaces ” a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public places that build communities.” International in scope.
- “Tracing the Changing Face of Kenmore Square.” Patrick L. Kennedy; slideshow by David Keefe, in BU Today, January 24, 2013.
- Trust for Public Land: Boston, Massachusetts Short papers, many on TPL’s East Boston project to convert an abandoned rail corridor into a bicycle and pedestrian trail. Use search box to find articles on Boston.
Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630 by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (HT168.B6 K46 1992 )Publication Date: 1994
Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (F73.3 .S46 2003 )Publication Date: 2003
Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (HT168.N5 D66 1996 )Publication Date: 1996
Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land by Location: Mugar Memorial Library X (F73.18 .S43 2006 )Publication Date: 2006
Boston: A Topographical Historuy by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (F73.3 .W57 2000 )Publication Date: 2000
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston by Location: Online. In print: Science & Engineering Library Stacks (QH105.M4 M58 2008 )Publication Date: 2008
Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings by Location: Online. In print: Science & Engineering Library Stacks (GE155.M4 R46 2009 )Publication Date: 2009
The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth by Location: Online. In print: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (HC108.B65 O26 2013 )Publication Date: 2013
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 by Location: Online. Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (HN80.B7 W3 1978 )Publication Date: 1978
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston by Location: Online. In print: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (F73.44 .R39 2010 )Publication Date: 2010
The Charles River: A History of Greater Boston's Waterway by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (F72.C46 C53 2012 )Publication Date: 2012
Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (NA9053.O3 R83 2012 )Publication Date: 2012
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Boston Harbor
- Boston Green Ribbon Commission "a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders in Boston working to develop shared strategies for fighting climate change in coordination with the City’s Climate Action Plan."
- Boston Harbor Now "Boston Harbor Now is working to re-establish Boston as one of the world’s truly great coastal cities. Everything we do is in partnership with public agencies, communities and private and non-profit partners."
- Boston By Boat A special project of Save the Harbor / Save the Bay.
- Save the Harbor / Save the Bay, “… mission is to restore and protect Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, and the marine environment…”
- Luna Preservation Society “…a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the tugboat Luna, a National Historic Landmark moored in Boston, MA.
Mastering Boston Harbor: Courts, Dolphins, and Imperiled Waters by Location: Online (Also available in print)Publication Date: 2005- Portrait of a Port: Boston 1852-1914 by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (HE767.B7 B8 )Publication Date: 1971
Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (HD4464.B67 E45 1998 )Publication Date: 1998
East of Boston: Notes from the Harbor Islands by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (F73.63 .S36 2008 )Publication Date: 2008
Inventing the Charles River by Location: Mugar Memorial Library (F72.C46 H33 2003 )Publication Date: 2002
Boston University Master Plans
Boston University Institutional Master Plans and Amendments (submitted to the Boston Redevelopment Authority)
