Introduction : National parks and landscape architecture
"The power of scenery" : picturesque theory and landscape design in American parks
"Conserve the scenery" : the national park as 20th-century landscape park
The Grand Canyon Village Historic District : the "Fairsted School" and American town planning
The Going-to-the-Sun Road Historic District : "Landscape engineering" and changing roles of Park Service professionals
The Mount Rainier National Park Historic District : regional planning and National Park Service "master planning"
The National Park Service and national recreational planning
Conclusion : the Blue Ridge Parkway.