Olmsted and Chicago

Olmsted designs a residential community, major parks, and the World’s Exposition. More

Olmsted and Vaux design a residential community that would be called Riverside. It’s among the first of the utopian garden suburbs. Later Olmsted and Vaux’s design for a Chicago park system were interrupted by the great Chicago Fire, but when the city began to play the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 they called on Olmsted once again.

AIR DATE 6/19/14