American idyll

By Robert Elwall Robert Elwall 2008-07-29T00:00:00

Source: RIBA Library Photographs Collection

The 19th century was a great age of urban park construction seen, for example, in Sir Joseph Paxton’s parks in Liverpool and Birkenhead and those of Adolphe Alphand in Paris.

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