Which led from the james river and these were designed in modern concrete so that when you looked down the roadway, you would see colonial style bridges, but tif you looked out your car window, you would see modern concrete style bridges. The heres a view of one of those bridges. You can see this kind of streamline modern farms. We talked last week about modern architecture. The idea of the machine, these bridges were paired down simple to reflect the machine age and if we think about the curves on this lovely chevy and the curves here, we think about those two designs being similar perhaps. In addition, the creeks were demark kated historic sites. Very much this experience of driving through wooded uplands along the rivers out across title marges, a beautiful drive between the two historic sites. On a much larger scale was the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Blue Ridge Parkway was conception conceptionized. Travels across North Carolina and tennessee. Its 469 miles long and was built between
It is not something we generally associate with Landscape Architecture but it wasnt always so. In fact, the modern freeway that you guys drive every day has its roots in Landscape Architecture and the park planning weve talked about already in this semester. Ill start with this review and familiar landscape that everyone should, i hope, recognize which is of course Prospect Park. We look at development of central park. Then Prospect Park which was olmsteads next great park in the late 1860s. They designed roads associated with this park. These were intended to be broad treelined streets spinning off the edges of the park in here. There are originally supposed to be four. Two are actually built eastern and Ocean Parkway. And here is a view of Ocean Parkway from 1894. So if we think about this, which is the first one of the first references to parkways in the United States. Olmstead and vox based their idea off paris. In this early conception of the parkway, they are thinking about a cou
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