#385 Frederick Law Olmsted and the Plan for Central Park

The Bowery Boys: New York City History - En podcast af Tom Meyers, Greg Young - Fredage

Frederick Law Olmsted, America's preeminent landscape architect of the 19th century, designed dozens of parks, parkways and college campuses across the country. With Calvert Vaux, he created two of New York City's greatest parks -- Central Park and Prospect Park. Yet before Central Park, he had never worked on any significant landscape project and he wasn't formally trained in any kind of architecture.

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