John Nolen’s Visionary Design of Venice, Florida: How One Man Shaped a City

In the 1920s, amid Florida’s legendary land boom, a small Gulf Coast town would become the canvas for one of America’s most distinguished urban planners. John Nolen, a visionary who studied at Harvard and apprenticed with Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., was commissioned to design Venice, Florida—a project that would become one of his most enduring […]