{"product_id":"9780803263833","title":"Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service","description":"Contemporary environmental historians have suggested that the history of National Park Service management of national parks since 1916 has resulted in a debacle of overuse and ecosystem destruction.  In Wilderness by Design, Ethan Carr goes beyond polemics to examine specific national park policies and the historical contexts that shaped them.  Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context. Despite the difficulties now confronting the parks, their continued ability to attract millions of visitors suggests that their creators succeeded in presenting a captivating vision of a once-wild America. Ethan Carr is the director of the Riverfront Program for Scenic Hudson, Inc. He has served as a landscape historian for the National Park Service, and as a result of his work, sites covered in this book earned designations as National Historic Landmarks.  ","brand":"UNP - Nebraska Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020367872240,"sku":"9780803263833","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803263833_p0.jpg?v=1763667013","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803263833","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}