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 couple of rather simple ideas. first it is a wider than average street. second, parkways in the early conception were usually tree-lined. we ve talked a little bit about boulevards and essentially a parkway in the beginning was a wide street with trees indistinguishable from the term boulevard. they are pretty much identical. the most significant difference is the name, which provided a sense of the utility of the parkway as linking a park to park. norman newton in your text says the parkway provides the psychological carryover of the restful influence of one large park area into its echo in another with little or no interruption along the way. right? so there is this idea of park. it is connected seamlessly with a parkway. parkways became to be a little b
began writing my book, the teacher wars about the history of teaching. now at that moment i felt as a longtime education teacher there was something not quite right. teaching had become definitely the most controversial profession discussed in our public life. in the media, and i have a member of the media, but veteran teachers were generally portrayed as undereducated, as incompetents and insufficiently committed to closing the achievement gap. now research showed then and still today that there are really big and serious problems with american public schools, such as a curriculum that s not up to snuff with our international peers, too much rote teaching, too many work sheathes, rote learning and the segregation of our low income children of color in separate classrooms and separate schools. these are giant moral and political shortcomings and yet, back in 2011 when i began writing my book, i noticed that the predominant policy response to these issues was very narrow. th
associate with landscape architecture but it wasn t always so. in fact, the modern freeway that you guys drive every day has its roots in landscape architecture in the park planning that we ve been talking about this semester. i ll 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 olmsted s next great park in the late 1860s. they designed roads associated with this park. these were intended to be broad tree-lined 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 you re thinking of alfond
the owl whisperer, how long this guy was trying to get that owl out of his home before coming up with this ingenious idea coming up in the trend. good day, everybody. thanks for joining us on this tuesday, june 24th. another beautiful day on tap, chris murphy, it is exciting when we feel like we are in the mode where kids are heading to camp. maybe your children are going to camp. just perfect weather for it, sue. it is, it is not too hot. we had a couple days in the the 90 s when it was impressive last week. you will notice it is more humid later this afternoon and that is why we re going with a nine instead of the ten but temperatures will be seasonal right where they are supposed to be this time of the year. mostly sunny skies, just a bit more humid, temperatures they range from 67 degrees in the city, and to 60 in the mountains. we are at 59 in millville and in atlantic city international. compared to yesterday, maybe a couple degrees mild inner some spots but it was
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