NYC BOOK AWARDS 2002

A Modern Arcadia
Susan L. Klaus

"Susan Klaus's Modern Arcadia is an important book in the history of city planning, a well-researched history of the creation of Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York, the Russell Sage Foundation's early twentieth-century model commuter suburb. Klaus positions her subject in the context of the garden cities movement in Europe and America, showing how the design team led by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., created a leafy community that a hundred years later remains one of the city's pleasantest neighborhoods." - Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

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