Frederick Law Olmsted

Reading L.A.: The Olmsted Brothers plan and what might have been

2011-11-11 16:33:01

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John D. Olmsted dies at 73; naturalist preserved open space in Northern California

2011-03-19 00:00:00

John D. Olmsted, a naturalist who led efforts to preserve Northern California nature areas, open space and trails, died of liver cancer March 8 at his home in Nevada City, Calif. He was 73. Inspired by conservationist John Muir, Olmsted spent more than...

Blacktop manifesto

2006-06-21 00:00:00

PARIS had its Baron Haussmann, who in the 19th century redesigned the French capital. New York had its Robert Moses, who before and after World War II redesigned that city's highways, parks and bridges. And Los Angeles? L.A. had the Traffic Commission....

The arduous journey to a new Silver Lake Reservoir path

2009-01-25 00:00:00

In a city that contains hundreds of miles of recreational walks, routes and trails, the opening of a new jogging path sounds about as noteworthy as a Pinkberry christening or another starlet DUI. But the new scenic path that opened in December along the...

Inauguration ushers in new hope for National Mall

2009-01-18 00:00:00

The cascade of extraordinary scenes will officially begin Tuesday, with the nation's first inauguration of an African American president on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, in a city south of the Mason-Dixon Line, as the oath of office is sworn on Abraham...

For Earth Day, go play in the garden

2008-04-17 00:00:00

THIS weekend, you could celebrate Earth Day -- which is technically Tuesday -- among L.A.'s stalled freeways, its overbooked apartments and endless arid concrete sidewalks. Or, like the hundreds of thousands of us who trek through Southern California's...

'My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life' by Witold Rybczynski

2009-03-01 00:00:00

My Two Polish Grandfathers And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life Witold Rybczynski Scribner: 228 pp., $25 Overrun by exhibitionists, the memoir has turned spuriously confessional. Yet if there's one life story that could stand a bit more self-...

Yosemite National Park: Sleeping in a bag or in a hotel bed?

2007-08-13 00:00:00

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — A creature of habit, Brian Ouzounian joins a swallow-like migration each summer to this park's glacier-cleaved valley. Ouzounian has camped in Yosemite Valley in nearly every one of his 57 years, setting down stakes a...

Brooklyn, baby

2007-12-12 11:44:36

Regular visitors to New York should bypass the tried-and-true of Manhattan for the city streets less traveled. Just a hop, skip and a borough away lies Brooklyn, ripe for its own exploration. (PHOTOS INCLUDED) Regular visitors to New York should bypass...

The Hottest Property

2006-04-30 00:00:00

1880s Isaac Newton Van Nuys, entrepreneur and member of the homesteading Lankershim group, has built the San Fernando Valley's first wood-frame house, its curb appeal immediately driving up prices in an area of adobe structures. Van Nuys' house, which...

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2003-06-22 00:00:00

New York's secret gardens Surprising, serene refuges soften the city's hard-edged corners, cacophony and crowds. By Susan Spano Times NEW YORK Broadway runs on a diagonal; the D train goes to Yankee Stadium; for bagels, go to H&H on the Upper West...

New York's secret gardens

2003-06-22 00:00:00

Broadway runs on a diagonal; the D train goes to Yankee Stadium; for bagels, go to H&H on the Upper West Side. There are plenty of guidebooks to tell you things like that. What they don't explain and what many visitors never understand is how residents...

The fountain at Leimert Park Plaza makes a relaxing lounging spot. The park was designed between 1926 and 1928 by the Olmsted Bros. firm, led by sons of the Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted.

2012-08-08 00:00:00

Stanford Bay Area Distance: 357 miles one-way Stanford, home to stately old buildings, was a farm before 1885, when Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, created Leland Stanford Junior University in honor of their recently deceased son.

2009-02-11 18:20:17

Overview of Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, located in the center of the park at 72nd Street. In their 1858 Greensward Plan, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux called the architectural heart of the Park "The Water Terrace," for its placement beside the Lake and the grand fountain in the center.

2003-07-02 16:13:06