Shared Spaces

Olmsted 200’s third webinar in our Conversations with Olmsted series. In this series, we explore different aspects of OlmstThe third webinar in our Conversations with Olmsted series, which explores different aspects of Olmsted’s far-reaching influence on America’s physical landscape and social fabric. This installment is co-hosted with one of our founding partners, the American Public […]

One of the first planned communities in the U.S., Riverside, IL is said to be the realization of Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision of the ideal suburb

I have a master’s degree in English and a law degree, both from the University of Pennsylvania, and I drew upon both disciplines for my new book, “The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks,” coming from Bison Books in November. The literary degree helped to shape the chapters about […]

F.L. Olmsted was greatly influenced by what he saw during his brief visit to Birkenhead. As well as the Park’s design, he was fundamentally challenged by the social and political concepts that it embodied.

In his hometown of Hartford, Olmsted contributed to the planning and the design of Trinity College.

In this episode of Cream City Windy City, podcast host Wendy Bright discusses Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. Olmsted had an outsize impact on Milwaukee and Chicago, designing some of the cities’ most exquisitely conceived parks in the early 1890s. Listen to the podcast now: https://cream-city-windy-city.simplecast.com/episodes/frederick-law-olmsted

(Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.) What drew you to write about World’s End? I’ve been interested in Frederick Law Olmsted since I was a kid. My dad was a preservation architect in New York City during the 1980s and ’90s, and one of his jobs was helping to restore Central […]