Chicago’s Jackson Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux – the men behind New York’s Central Park. They teamed up with Daniel Burnham to transform the park into the so ...

And another decade passed. Take a walk though the 551-acre Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Jackson Park, especially this time of the year, and its beauty is absolutely apparent. And so is the city ...

Clarence Darrow Bridge, which overlooks the lagoon south of the Museum of Science and Industry, is one of the few remnants of the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s original vision for ...

Aerial view of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Image © The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy via Wikipedia under license CC BY-SA 4.0 Landscape architecture is having a ...

Olmsted’s best ideas were often simple ones: the sunken crossroads of Central Park that help visitors forget the noisy city around them, the meandering trails at Niagara Falls that feature ...

Today, Olmsted is known as the father of landscape architecture, a pioneer who created some of the nation’s most beautiful green spaces—most famously Central Park and Prospect Park ...