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Changes and Challenges in Olmsted Parks

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Olmsted feared that his parks would be ruined by intrusions of all sorts.

Olmsted feared that the open space in a park would be a temptation to a growing city. His fears have been realized. In many places, parts of his parks have been redesigned and some have been nearly destroyed. The integrity of Olmsted’s parks has been threatened by golf courses and stadiums in Boston, large teepees and lookout towers in Louisville, and highways and overpasses in Buffalo.

AIR DATE 6/19/14

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Changes and Challenges in Olmsted Parks

Olmsted and Chicago

The Best Planned City in the World

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America Trailer

Photography and Design in Olmsted’s Boston Parks

Louisville: From Olmsted to the 21st Century

The Campaign to Save the Olmsted Linear Park in Atlanta

The Fall and Rise of Central Park

About Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America is a biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. Olmsted made enormous contributions to the American landscape and is known as the father of American landscape architecture. He was co-designer of Central Park, head of the first Yosemite commission, leader of the campaign to protect Niagara Falls, designer of the U.S. Capitol Grounds, site planner for the Great White City of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, planner of Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” of green space and of park systems in many other cities.

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