Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

About Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

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.

Ken Chowder's Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America is a 2014 documentary film. At 56 minutes long, it arrived in May 2014.

Stockard Channing stars as Narrator, and Campbell Scott as Frederick Law Olmsted (Voice).

Shelv files it under park, landscape architect, and olmsted. It streams on PBS, PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, and PBS Living Amazon Channel in the United States.