Olmsted Township

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…

Coney Island has long been considered a symbol of the American way; a place welcoming those of all classes, races, genders, and ethnicities as well as a place of opportunity and fortune. This wasn’t, and isn’t, necessarily the case though; there was a darker side to the island that represented greed and the effects of capitalism as well as greater urban decay. After the Civil War, the popularity of Coney Island skyrocketed; hotels sprouted up along the shoreline advertising the island as a place…

The United States during the 1890s heralded a dramatic break between America’s past and future. It was a decade of extreme contradiction. The unmatched cultural advancement was accompanied by intense economic unrest. While this decade saw the rise of cities, advanced technology, and rollercoasters, it also saw economic depressions, the invention of detection, and the birth of America’s serial killer. The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 highlights the contradictions of United States culture,…

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…

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…