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 in the park planning that weve been talking about this semester. Ill start with a little bit of review and this familiar landscape which everyone should, i hope, recognize, which of course is Prospect Park. So we look at the development of central park. Then we look at Prospect Park, which is olmsteds 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 of fauch avenue in paris. So if youre thinking of alfond and housmans work e
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
Chance in weeks people to hang out late here at sherman park. But for the most part they didnt. There were a few kids over by the swings there, but as you can see its pretty empty. And its been that way since about 8 tonight. But earlier it was a different story. People bbqing and having a good time enjoying labor day at sherman park. This weekend county executive reopened the park ordering deputies to remove the orange fencing. Border has been there ever since the unrest happened here where businesses were burned ti the ground. But after abele opened it sheriff david clark ordered the fence to be put back up, and the park to close at the emergency chrfew time he set weeks ago 6 oclock. This political battle went back and firth because both of them have power over park hours. That is until the issue went to court and a judge decided the park would time of 10pm. I wish the sheriff and the county executive would have worked something out but the sheriff seems to thing that hes above the
To find that the doors of the school were locked. One student told me, he received an email from the school around 6 oclock this morning announcing the closure. That email explained the school was forced to take the action after the u. S. Department of education issued sanctions nearly 2 weeks ago, including a ban on enrolling new students who rely on federal financial aid. Aid. In a statement itt tech said in part we reached this decision only after having us alternatives, including transfer of the schools to a nonprofit or public institution. Among the students who tried to get here this morning, was an army veteran who says he feels cheated. Sotdon moulder student another problem that we are having is these other colleges in the area, matc, uw, ect, theyre not accepting itt transcripts so where are we to go . 3 thats just one of many of the problems students will face. Students can apply to have their loadns discharged and forgiven. Well post that information on our website. Cbs 58