CSPAN3 Development Of Parkways And Freeways September 3, 2016
It is not something we generally associate with Landscape Architecture but it wasnt always so. In fact, the modern freeway that you guys drive every day has its roots in Landscape Architecture and the park planning weve talked about already in this semester. Ill start with this review and familiar landscape that everyone should, i hope, recognize which is of course Prospect Park. We look at development of central park. Then Prospect Park which was olmsteads next great park in the late 1860s. They designed roads associated with this park. These were intended to be broad treelined streets spinni...