Over the course of four decades, Marjorie Cautley (18911954) became the first woman landscape architect to design state parks, plan the landscape for a public housing project, and teach in a university planning department. Sarah Allaback's absorbing biography illuminates how Cautley transcended both cultural and professional boundaries during one of the most tumultuous eras in American historythe advent of the automobileto create places for people to lead healthy, vital lives.
