David Schuyler is associate professor in the American Studies Program at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the co-editor of volume 3 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Creating Central Park, 1857-1861 and assistant editor of volume 2, Slavery and the South, 1852-1857. Both are available from Johns Hopkins.

"The best single volume on nineteenth-century park development, and no existing work describes the origins and evolution of the naturalistic vision as capably as The New Urban Landscape. Moreover, Schuyler handles his subject with admirable economy and grace."-- Reviews in American History

In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Schuyler analyzes efforts by the civic leaders of that time to define a new urban culture by creating open recreational and residential areas for growing cities.