The Park + the City Beautiful

THE PARK:
London --
      Royal Parks -- St. James, Green, Hyde
      Regent's Park -- 1812- , James Nash
Birkenhead -- municipal park, Joseph Paxton, 1844- (plan)
[Edwin Chadwick, The Effect of Public Walks & Gardens on the
         Health and Morals of the Lower Class]
Paris --
      Boulevards
      Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes
      Buttes Chaumont, c. 1867
U.S. --
      Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA, 1831, Dr. Bigelow &
      Massachusetts Horticultural Society (plan)
      Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 1852
      Maple Grove Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Ohio, 1847 (plan)
      Central Park, NYC -- 1853-
         Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux 1856- (litho. view; aerial view)
      Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Olmsted & Vaux, 1866-67
      Boston Park network, 1891, Olmsted (plan)
        Common, Public Garden, Commonwealth Ave., Fenway, 
        Franklin Park
   
CITY BEAUTIFUL:
   World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (cf. Paris 1889) (plan; basin of    
         honor)
        Burnham, Olmsted, McKim, St. Gaudens, et al.
   Washington, D.C. -- McMillan Commission (Senate Park Commission), 
         1901 -- Burnham, Olmsted Jr., McKim, St. Gaudens (model; plan; aerial 
         view)
   San Francisco
        Burnham Plan, 1902-06
        Civic Center, Bakewell & Brown, 1912-15 (bird’s eye of project)
   Chicago
        Burnham & Bennet Plan, 1907-09 (plan; civic center) 


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