Machine generated contents note: 1.Downing's Newburgh and the Spirit of Place -- 2.The Making of the Treatise -- 3.Theory and Practice -- 4.A Gospel of Taste -- 5.Reforming Rural Life -- 6.Toward an American Architecture -- 7.Downing & Vaux, Architects -- 8.The Metropolitan Landscape -- 9.Tastemaker to the Nation.