FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED: DESIGNING AMERICA
Directed by Ken Chowder
To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
Cast
Stockard Channing
Narrator
Campbell Scott
Frederick Law Olmsted (Voice)
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