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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 (birds eye of project) Chicago Burnham & Bennet Plan, 1907-09 (plan; civic center)