PARKS, POLITICS, AND THE PUBLIC

BOSTON’S FRANKLIN PARK: OLMSTED, RECREATION, AND THE MODERN CITY

MIMI ZEIGER

BY ETHAN CARR, AFTERWORD BY GARY HILDERBRAND; AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS: LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE HISTORY, 2023; 208 PAGES, $45. REVIEWED BY SARA JENSEN CARR, ASLA Frederick Law Olmsted’s parks are often heralded as unimpeachable works, monuments to landscape architecture’s apex of Progressive Era values, pastoral aesthetics, and democratizing public space. Olmsted was such a prodigious chronicler of his own work and process that his perspective shapes the foundations of our profession. But it’s only recently that his legacy and the historical context of his work have come under reconsideration, most notably in the growing acknowledgment that the Black settlement of Seneca Village in New York City was razed for Central Park. This new scrutiny demands that we reconsider questions about how his works may be preserved, or even reshaped, in the…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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