![]() ![]() Waldheim argued that the 1857 economic shock was a “hinge point” that created demand for a “whole new set of practices, focused on social justice, equity, and public reform.” Economic change created the conditions for landscape architecture.Īccording to John Stauffer, the Sumner R. “Landscape architecture was radical during his time - a whole new field focused on social progress and reform.”īefore founding the profession of landscape architecture, Olmsted had been a reporter and superintendent of Central Park in New York City, a commission he had won with a design created with Calvert Vaux. Irving professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in a panel discussion organized as part of the year-long Olmsted 200 program. This new profession offered “very specific responses” to the social, political, and environmental challenges of the time, argued Charles Waldheim, Hon. ![]() In the final decades of the 19th century, the new art of landscape architecture was born, in large part due to the efforts of Frederick Law Olmsted. ![]() Courtesy of the PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography at Cornell University Map from the 1862 edition of Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted. ![]()
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