The Making Of Seattle's Park System
4 April 2003 - 7:00am
How Seattle's park system was created
"City leaders had been hoping to lure the founder's namesake, Frederick Olmsted Jr., but he was busy lecturing at Harvard and couldn't make the trip. Some say it was a lucky break for Seattle, since John Olmsted was really the more talented of the two men...Olmsted walked all over Seattle, studying the terrain, soaking up the views, planning the layout and locations of parks.His key advice to the cities he worked for was to buy as much land as possible for a comprehensive parks system and to preserve views and scenery."
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A walk in the park: How it was all planned
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 2, 2003
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