Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford, Connecticut, April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City. Other project include the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York, Mount Royal Park in Montreal, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts, Cherokee Park (and the entire parks and parkway system) in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as Jackson Park, Washington Park, Midway Plaisance in Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition, Detroit's 982 acre Belle Isle park, the landscape surrounding the United States Capitol building, Piedmont Park in Atlanta, and George Washington Vanderbilt II's Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.

Fonte: Babylon.

Some projects of Olmsted´s urban parks:

Central Park, New York - EUA. Fonte: The urban earth.

Prospect Park, New York - EUA. Fonte: Prospect park alliance.

Cherokee Park, Louisvile, Kentucky - EUA. Fonte: Olmsted Park.

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Olmsted moved his home to suburban Boston in 1883 and established the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design. During the next century, his sons and successors perpetuated Olmsted's design ideals, philosophy, and influence.

Fonte: National Park Service.