He planned the terrace of the U.S. Capitol, the Stanford Campus, and Jackson Park in Chicago, but FTP, what engineer and landscape architect remains best known for designing Central Park?
He studied scientific farming under George Geddes several years after his vision recovered from the sumac poisoning he suffered as a youth.  After heading the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the war, he became chair of Yosemite property for California where he implemented ideas like the "parkway."  An outspoken essayist, works like The Cotton Kingdom expressed his abolitionist politics, while his urban designs, often with Calvert Vaux, were meant to bring nature to the masses.  He planned the terrace of the U.S. Capitol, the Stanford Campus, and Jackson Park in Chicago, but FTP, what engineer and landscape architect remains best known for designing Central Park?
He studied scientific farming under George Geddes several years after his vision recovered from the sumac poisoning he suffered as a youth.  
Frederick Law Olmsted