Suburban Vision to Urban Reality: The Evolution of Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Parkway Neighborhoods

Journal of Planning History

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 295-321

  Macdonald, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brooklyn; Olmsted; parkways; suburbs; urban form

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992785651     PISSN: 15385132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538513205282143     Document Type: Article

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