On lectures in history, James Madison University Professor evan friss teaches a class about the evolution of the suburbs from the early 1900s until the present. He talks about how changes to home on policy loan policy and the rise of automobiles helped great an alternative to urban living. His class is about an hour. Mr. Friss today we are talking about the suburbs. How many of you grew up in the suburbs . Almost all of you. What kind of adjectives would you use to describe the suburbs . Proud. Mr. Friss perhaps an unusual choice. Like being from nowhere. Mr. Friss good. Other descriptions, characterizations . Safe. A utopia. Mr. Friss a utopia. Family oriented. Mr. Friss family oriented. Nicolas, were you going to Say Something . Drew . I love this. [laughter] mr. Friss good. Some people, utopia, maybe this is a different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. I thought we would start with an image of contemporary
On lectures in history, James Madison University Professor evan friss teaches a class about the evolution of the suburbs from the early 1900s until the present. He talks about how changes to home on policy loan policy and the rise of automobiles helped great an alternative to urban living. His class is about an hour. Mr. Friss today we are talking about the suburbs. How many of you grew up in the suburbs . Almost all of you. What kind of adjectives would you use to describe the suburbs . Proud. Mr. Friss perhaps an unusual choice. Like being from nowhere. Mr. Friss good. Other descriptions, characterizations . Safe. A utopia. Mr. Friss a utopia. Family oriented. Mr. Friss family oriented. Nicolas, were you going to Say Something . Drew . I love this. [laughter] mr. Friss good. Some people, utopia, maybe this is a different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. I thought we would start with an image of contemporary
On the wrong side of the law and noted so. But i think that everybody who worked at the Nixon White House knew the difference between right and wrong, and they you have a great meter in our gut tests of things. Everything i thought was wrong when i pulled out the law books, was wrong. So to me the lesson is, when it feels wrong, it probably is wrong. Doublecheck, we have an also rather interesting situation jive in your 30s only and youre a lawyer in the white house, bang the door downed, raise your hand and say maybe youre going to go out and take an extraordinary amount of courage for somebody to actually do that. Guest i blew up one breakin, which was the brookings. They never thanked mr. For saving their build that i go were going to firebomb. Host i doubt if they will. Guest i think youre right. Anyway, thats one lesson. We all have good sense host your gut, is this right or wrong . Guest exactly. And, for lawyers, that what as a result of watergate there came out a set of rules t
relationship with the olmsted s, having edited the master list of design projects which i just mentioned, as well as parts of the papers of frederick law olmsted, a mere 12 volumes, thousands and thousands of pages. she is currently the co-chair of the friends of fair stud, the nonprofit partner of the frederick law olmsted national historic site as well. and with that, welcome, lauren. thank you. and if i can figure out the technology here, i m going to pull up the next. i might need someone not opening. i m not a mac users. i do. i just click on it here. i think you just you just going there it is sort a double click in the middle, double click in the middle. different than my. yeah. well who. welcome everyone to session two. i m i m going to kick off this this panel covering a sort of a flyover of the role of the olmsted in the national park service. faller followed by scholar and historian hope cushing, who will do a deeper dive into the work of frederick law olmsted jr a
i am delighted to move us to our second panel. olmsted junior, the conservation movement and state and national parks. and we are lucky to have lauren meyer, a historian and landscape architect, serving as both moderator and kickoff speaker for this event. lauren has a long standing relationship with the olmsted s, having edited the master list of design projects which i just mentioned, as well as parts of the papers of frederick law olmsted, a mere 12 volumes, thousands and thousands of pages. she is currently the co-chair of the friends of fair stud, the nonprofit partner of the frederick law olmsted national historic site as well. and with that, welcome, lauren. thank you. and if i can figure out the technology here, i m going to pull up the next. i might need someone not opening. i m not a mac users. i do. i just click on it here. i think you just you just going there it is sort a double click in the middle, double click in the middle. different than my. yeah. well who. w