The way we invoke the name of Frederick Law Olmsted around here, you would think that he and his partner, Calvert Vaux, brought forth landscape architecture and park design as a kind of received ...

Also see Frank Kowsky’s book, The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System, ...

“The fact that they decided to keep some of the bedrock exposed instead of blasting them was the reason I got into rock climbing,” Shiraishi, now 22, says of Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s ...