FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Shared Experience, Drumlin, Storm Drain
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Olmstead"s work to frame experience of sublime american landscapes (along with vaux); to bring experience of powerful landscapes into na cities via design of urban parks (ex. Olmstead"s work in boston engages radical rethinking of landscape, infrastructure, environmental processes, civic space; where the improvements are for utility, scenery while solving transportation and drainage issues. Franklin park not an independent place (compared to central park, mount royal) end of a series of places that wind around the city and performs essential functions. Arnold arboritum, jamaica pond, the riverway, the fenway (attaching to commonwealth. Boston founded on rocky peninsula in sheltered harbour; granitic hills form edge of basin, shallow plain forming shallow till. Olmstead proposes system of public spaces connecting various, dispersed regions (fenway, 1878-95: construction, over 2000 acres of open land. Muddy river improvement like the fens, looks natural enough so that people came to think that it predated settlement near the fens, up and around to meet jamaica pond.
