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Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles Region

Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles Region

Olin, Laurie
Hise, Greg
Deverell, William F.

Paperback

General ArchitectureArchitecture HistoryLandscape Architecture

ISBN10: 0520224159
ISBN13: 9780520224155
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jun 7 2000
Pages: 323
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
In 1930 the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region, to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and public beaches. It is a model of ambitious, intelligent, sensitive planning commissioned at a time when land was available, if only the city planners had had the fortitude and vision to act on its recommendations.

Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches has become a highly valued but difficult-to-find document. In this book, Greg Hise and William Deverell examine the reasons it was called for, analyze why it failed, and open a discussion about the future of urban public space. In addition to their introduction and a facsimile reproduction of the report, Eden by Design includes a dialogue between Hise, Deverell, and widely admired landscape architect Laurie Olin that illuminates the significance of the Olmsted-Bartholomew report and situates it in the history of American landscape planning.

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