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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903): This visionary landscape architect was responsible for the design of many major U.S. parks, including Jackson and Washington Parks and the connecting Midway Plaisance in Chicago, as well as the suburb of Riverside, one of the first planned communities in the U.S. He saw public parks as places of respite and repose for all the residents of crowded cities and believed landscapes should be planned to preserve and artfully adapt the natural scenery, using many local plants. With and later without partner Calvert Vaux, Olmsted was responsible for New York's Central Park; park systems in Boston, Milwaukee and Buffalo; schools, town plans and cemeteries; the groun...
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903): This visionary landscape architect was responsible for the design of many major U.S. parks, including Jackson and Washington Parks and the connecting Midway Plaisance in Chicago, as well as the suburb of Riverside, one of the first planned communities in the U.S. He saw public parks as places of respite and repose for all the residents of crowded cities and believed landscapes should be planned to preserve and artfully adapt the natural scenery, using many local plants. With and later without partner Calvert Vaux, Olmsted was responsible for New York's Central Park; park systems in Boston, Milwaukee and Buffalo; schools, town plans and cemeteries; the grounds of the U.S. Capitol; and the spectacular Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. One of his last jobs was the landscape for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. After the fair, Jackson and Washington Parks were developed on the site along the lines of an earlier Olmsted and Vaux plan. Olmsted, a prolific writer, had a lasting national influence on conservation, open space planning in cities and landscape design.
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I'll take (the other) Manhattan
"No Sleep Till Brooklyn," The Beastie Boys Before it was the baby name of choice among foreign-born arrivistes, or became synonymous with urban chic, and before it attracted more celebrities than Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Brooklyn was...Tags: New Jersey, Google Inc., Windsor Terrace, Vehicles, Central Park
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Linking trails helps save city's green space
Kudos to Jonathan Pitts for updating us on the 2009 Strategic Implementation Plan for Maryland Trails ("Trail mix," Sept. 4). Meanwhile, in leafy Roland Park, we are locked in a battle to save our remaining green space. A rezoning decision by the city...Tags: Roland Park, Clubs and Associations, Maryland
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Weaving a web of biking trails
He has tried bicycling on the roads, but Gene Bayer learned his lesson long ago: You can't size up what a motorist is thinking.
"I've been hit twice," said Bayer, president of the Baltimore Bicycling Club, via cell phone as he pedaled along the BWI Trail...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Illnesses, Obesity, Vehicles, Martin O'Malley
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New York Real Estate: Kew Gardens, Queens
Special to amNewYorkIf you are a believer of "great things come in small packages," then Kew Gardens might be your kind of neighborhood. This triangular-shaped enclave has many conveniences of city life, yet retains a small-town feel. One of seven planned communities in...Tags: Long Island Rail Road, Theft, Crimes, Movies, History
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Welcome mat has always been on Florida's doorstep
Sentinel Staff WriterWelcome to Flashback's new digs; it feels homey, and we've got some real nice neighbors here in "Your Time" as we continue our ramblings into Florida's fascinating past. In 1925, on a motorcycle ramble with her husband, Bill, who would go on to found...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Orlando, Cypress Gardens, Seminole County, Orange County (Florida)
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Ohio congressman led land preservation efforts
The Washington PostJohn Seiberling, 89, an 8-term congressman who represented Ohio's 14th District from 1971 to 1987 and a liberal Democrat who championed environmental concerns, died of respiratory failure Saturday at his home in Akron. An environmentalist before becoming...Tags: Medical Conditions, National Government, Ohio, Washington Post Company, Wildlife
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For Games, China playing to gallery
Chicago Tribune correspondentBEIJING — Decades in the making, China's march to the Olympics is nearly complete, but one might never have imagined that preparations would reach as far into the corners of Chinese daily life as this: a gymnasium on an obscure college campus in the...Tags: Heads of State, Vehicles, Tourism and Leisure, United States of America, International Olympic Committee
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Central Park celebrates 150 years
The design for Central Park was chosen 150 years ago today.
The design by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (VAHKS) created America's first major urban public park.
To kickoff the anniversary celebration, the city on Monday renamed the 72nd...Tags: Central Park, Calvert Vaux
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For Earth Day, go play in the garden
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHIS weekend, you could celebrate Earth Day -- which is technically Tuesday -- among L.A.'s stalled freeways, its overbooked apartments and endless arid concrete sidewalks. Or, like the hundreds of thousands of us who trek through Southern California's...Tags: Sculpture, Values, Topanga, Ethics, Central Park
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SENIOR TRAVEL: Take in the flowers of the Garden State
rhoda.amon@newsday.comSeniors, start your engines. One of the nation's most spectacular and little-known cherry blossom displays is no farther away than New Jersey, but time is of the essence. The Cherry Blossom Festival in Newark's Branch Brook Park starts today and continues...Tags: New Jersey, Manhattan (New York City), Central Park, Melville, Herbal Medicines
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Community's promise attracting money, faith
Tribune reportersCraig Huffman comes to the private-equity world with a multifaceted set of credentials: two master's degrees from the University of Chicago, stints in the non-profit world, and a stretch as a rehabber of distressed properties. Now Huffman is ready to...Tags: Homes, National Government, Deerfield, Daniel Burnham, McCormick Place
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Landscapes under siege
Vanishing America: In Pursuit of our Elusive Landscapes By James Conaway Shoemaker & Hoard, 275 pages, $24.95 The notion of progress is generally perceived as an inherently positive one. Calling to mind a variety of upward indicators, it can point to...Tags: National Government, Nature, Christianity, Natural Resources, Tourism and Leisure
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