Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted born April 26, 1822 in Hartford, Connecticut and died August 28, 1903.He worked as American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. His Spouse is Mary Olmsted. The Books he wrote were The Cotton Kingdom, A Journey Through Texas, More. His Sibling was John Hull. He attended Tale University and Philips academy. In August 1857, Olmsted of New York City's new Central Park was looking for a superintendent. The design of Central Park embodies Olmsted's social consciousness and commitment to egalitarian ideals. Influenced by Downing and his own observations regarding social class in England, China, and the American South, Olmsted believed that the common green space must always be equally accessible…

Frederick Law Olmsted, born April 26, 1822 in Hartford, Connecticut, is deemed the father of landscape architecture in the United States. At age 18, he moved to New York, where he worked as a scientific farmer. After this failed venture, Olmsted became a merchant seaman and traveled all over the European continent. After returning to America, Olmsted worked as a newspaper columnist, founded The Nation magazine and authored numerous books before becoming a renowned landscape architect. Olmsted…

LEADERSHIP In 1888, Frederick Law Olmsted was hired by George Washington Vanderbilt to work on the grounds of Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, which is now the Pisgah National Forest. During this time, Olmsted formulated the first program of forest management. In 1892, Olmsted hired a trained forester by the name of Gifford Pinchot to help him create a comprehensive forest management plan. Under the Olmsted’s guidance, Pinchot carried out the Biltmore Working Plan, which had three…

Island, Fine Arts Building, the mines, the Woman's Building, and the Nation's Buildings. The third area is commonly referred to as the “Midway Plaisance”. The Midway strove the gap between education and entertainment and consisted mainly of small exhibits that represented portions of cultures ranging from across the world. The location of Chicago’s World Fair proved to be its first major obstacle as the organizing committee questioned which region of the city would be able to withstand such an…

a journey through the late 19th Century into the early 20th Century focusing on the new mass culture that was developing in the United States. He uses the development and culture of New York’s Coney Island as his main catalyst to define the changes people were going through at the time. The late 1800s and early 1900s really served as a great time of change in the United States. The coherent set of values that were prevalent throughout the 1800s were beginning to change and people were…

In the mid-1800s, New York City had one million people living in it. This was the biggest city on the east coast of the United States of America. It was growing in both size and value; but as the city grew, the natural environment shrunk. And in today’s New York City with its 8.5 million citizens the only green that is left in the city are man-made parks. Frederick Olmstead, who created all 842 acres of Central Park, had amazing foresight into what the city would become. As Abraham Lincoln…

B. Description of the Community Economic: Holiday Hill is located in Prospect, Connecticut. Prospect is known as a middleclass town within Connecticut with people employed in construction, manufacturing, retail trade, administration, waste management, remediation, and health care. Demographic: Prospect, Connecticut has a population of 8,983, with 92.53% Caucasian, 2.33 % African-American, 2.66% Hispanic/Latino, .64% Asian/Pacific, and 1.84% is other of multi-race. The median age for Prospect…

1a. Jane Addams and the Hull House- She was an american activist and reformer. The Hull house was founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. The Hull House served as a place where the working class immigrants could use as shelter and for social purposes. In Devil in the White City, when problems occurred about America's lower and middle class, the Hull House was used as a place to speak and issue these problems. B. Frederick Law Olmstead- He was an american landscape architect, born…

gambling rings; the New York Times wrote that this section of the island was “entirely hidden behind the colossal elephant, which hides a multitude of sins”, this colossal elephant being the front, or representational space (Immerson 49). The entrepreneurs of Coney Island utilized advertising to convey the positive representational space; they perpetuated visions of fun, leisure, and cleanliness. In attempt to keep the back space of Coney Island at bay and out of sight, there were frequent…

My intent of this paper topic will be highlighting the inspiration of how Robert Hammond and Josh David visionary idea transformed the creation of an unused, abandoned railway line to a spectacular greenery park in the sky -the New York’s High Line. Hammond and David were two guys from the neighborhood who decided that tearing down the railway line was not a good idea, while other people in the community, including property owners and the Mayor Giuliani wanted the unused railway demolish. With…