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Frederick Law Olmsted UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture LARC 444/553 Green Network Planning January 9, 2019 GREEN NETWORKS A Short History A Very Selective History…. THEMES 1. Pioneers of green space systems 2. Greenspace systems and urban form 3. Early green neighbourhoods EARLY GREEN SYSTEMS THINKING & PLANS Olmsted(s), Kessler, Cleveland FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED by creativemarket.com FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED 1822- 1903 Farmer, social reformer, journalist, social critic, public administrator and… First to coin “landscape architect” Father of Landscape Architecture designer of ~100 parks, park systems, estates, 27 campuses FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED (FLO) With Calvert Vaux, designed Central Park in 1858 Landscape architecture consulting firm 1865- 1898 Olmsted Brothers: FLO Junior and John Charles 1898- 1980 source Getty Images OLMSTED- Central Park, NYC A place of respite for the working class from the industrial city beauty, sanitation , health Olmsted envisioned a system of green spaces eXtending throughout NYC - parkways and linear parks interconnecting the major parks Central Park - diagram showing Riverside, Heckscher 1977 p. 169 OLMSTED- Pleasure drives Prospect Park, Brooklyn Parkways (pleasure drives to and between parks) interconnected parks systems Lewis Mumford: “The park system is thus the very spearhead of comprehensive urban planning”. Heckscher 1977 p. 193 BUFFALO PARK SYSTEM Olmsted & Vaux 1868-1872 USA- “first system of parks and historic parkways” Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy VISION: • parkway as form-givers • connecng key parks • armature for interconnecng future parks Heckscher- as system aborted Source: Albert Fein, 1972 FL Olmsted and the American environmental tradition. BOSTON PARK SYSTEM aka Emerald Necklace (1878-1895) Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Elliot, John Charles Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (Olmsted coined the term “park system”) source wikimedia.org BOSTON PARK SYSTEM aka Emerald Necklace (1878-1895) Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles Elliot, John Charles Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. envisioned as a circumnavigang greenbelt around Boston (never completed) begins at Boston Common (1634) “a chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways” Wikipedia walking, pleasure drives, small parks, arboretum, large park (Franklin), along waterways BACK BAY FENS- First Green Infrastructure “Frederick Law Olmsted….proposed to flush out the stagnant waterway and add naturalisc planngs to emulate the original de marsh ecology of the Fenway area. His plan was true to both the character of the land and the needs of the growing populaon.” Boston Mayor Marn J. Walsh Boston Park Department & Olmsted Landscape Architects, “Map of the Back Bay Fens,” The Urban Imagination, accessed September 4, 2017, http:// dighist.fas.harvard.edu/courses/2015/HUM54/items/show/70. INFLUENCES IN CANADA 1877 Mount Royal Park, Montreal F. L. Olmsted Sr. FREDERICK TODD, Landscape Architect First resident landscape architect in Canada EXAMPLES OF WORK: 1904 Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg 1899 Park system of the National Capital- Ottawa 1905 Park system, Edmonton Residential developments in Vancouver- Shaughnessy and Point Grey Greenspaces along the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton MINNEAPOLIS PARK SYSTEM (1880’s) H.W.S. (Horace) Cleveland Heckscher: Protecting and interconnecting natural features A city of parkways A city characterized by natural features Minneapolis Park System Plan, 1883 source Heckscher 1977, page 207 94 HUMBOLDT GREENWAY JOHN C. 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SOLOMON TOTLOT on PARK ic PARK Grass Ch Lake Frem minneapolisparks.org LEONARD H. NEIMAN SPORTS COMPLEX FORT SNELLING GOLF 35W GEORGE KESSLER Educated in landscape architecture in Germany 1892 Landscape Architect for Kansas City Park Board worked briefly in New York/ communicated with Olmsted Private pracce: designed notable parks and park systems in Memphis, Dallas, St Louis, Indianapolis… KANSAS CITY PARK SYSTEM George Kessler 1893 1977 Heckscher: Planning the “bones” or structure of the city & Expandable system source Heckscher 1977, page 200, 201 OLMSTED BROTHERS- PORTLAND John Charles Olmsted, December 1903 Proposed system of parks for Portland, Oregon • parks should be part of a system • park systems should be comprehensive • connected by boulevards and parkways • sited to take advantage of natural landscapes & scenery • include ill-drained areas and areas subject to flooding Unknown author_graphic interpretation of the John Charles Olmsted proposal PORTLAND 2035 Comprehensive Plan (2016) Vision for greenways and habitat areas OLMSTED BROTHERS- SEATTLE (1903 - 1941) 1903 Plan for a parks system “The primary aim should be to secure and preserve for the use of the people … these advantages of water and mountain views and of woodlands… An ideal system would involve taking all of the borders of the different bodies of water…and to enlarge these fringes at suitable and convenient points.” John Charles Olmsted, 1903 Source: Heckscher 1977, page 75 1903 Plan 2019 JOHN NOLEN: Landscape architect and town planner John Nolen 1869-1937 educated at Harvard 1903 - 1905 studied landscape architecture under Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
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