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- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
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- Copyright © University of Wisconsin Press
- ISSN
- 1553-2704
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: Cultural landscape scholars might look to the Olmsted Brothers design for Palos Verdes Estates, California, as an important early example of a landscape architecture firm’s environmentally sensitive approach to community design. In this important project, Olmsted Brothers applied a sophisticated methodology gleaned from climate and soil studies, employing native plants and designing roadways and public spaces to better infiltrate stormwater. The firm’s plan arguably foreshadowed Ian McHarg’s ideas and contemporary green infrastructure planning. Previous scholarship on the origins of environmentally based practice has either ignored or misconstrued the firm’s important environmental contributions.
Journal
Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Sep 13, 2016