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Every common working citizen in our nation has a set routine they go through every day, Monday through Friday. Usually in involves getting up around 5:00-8:00 a.m. every morning, fighting the same traffic every morning on the way to work, working for eight hours on basically the same job over and over again, gaingin more and more stress as the day goes on, inturn building our stress levels. Then we clock out, go home and try not to let the misurable day we had at work get us down. We need a balance, or harmony in our lives to keep us going back to work every day and putting up with the life of the city. I beleive we need a down time, or just a time to relax and think. We have places in our communities such as museums, cinemas, health clubs, libraries, etc. to help us achieve that balance. Unfortunately, these places are themselves in and amung the big buildings and busy city. We need a place for us to be able to just step out of character, so to speak, and look at wher!e our life is going. I believe the places that provide us with the essential balance in our lives is city parks. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, our cities have become a huge collection of large buildings, even bigger factories, and of course the m
This middle state between the primitive and the urban was used as many 19th. century author's utopia. Such utopists writers such as Daniel Bond, Leo Marx, and Albert Merrill's described their utopia as a landscaped, garden-like America. They wrote about lusous pastoral landscapes, beautiful farms, and even two hundred foot wide roads with fountains and gardens in the middle. This idea of a cultivated nature was the popular idea of a modern utopia. On the other hand authors such as Thoreau, Emerson , and William Wordsworth loved the natural wilderness. It was an escape from the menacing cruelty and greed found in the city. I believe the modern day inner city park's purpose is somewhere between thses two view points. Olmsted's presents was felt all over our city, with over one hundred and fifty projects just in Louisville. These projects were done by the Olmsted firm, which included his sons Fredrick Jr. and John Charles. The projects included eighteen parks, six parkways, the Brown-Forman and University of Louisville campuses and gardencourts, and several projects in Bernhiem Forest Olmsted's goal behind his work was to attempt to improve American society. He had visions of spacious recreational and cultural accomplishments in the hearts of cities. He didn't see his works as open fields with a few trees and shrubs, giving the city just a void of space, instead he saw city parks as places of harmony; places where people would go to escape life and regain their sanity. He also was a strong believer in equality, he wanted his parks to be available to everyone no matter what walk of life you were. Separation and subordination were applied by Olmsted more clearly than any other landscape architect of his era. Subordination was achieved in his parks where carefully constructed walks and paths would flow through landscape with gentle grades and easy curves, thus requiring the viewer's minimal attention to the process of movement. Also, many of the structures that Olmsted incorporated into his parks would merge with their surroundings forming a views that were complete and spacious. Olmsted accomplished separation in his park systems by designing smaller recreational areas for other activities and where "park ways" handle the movement of pedestrians and vehicular traffic offset these large parks. And on the other hand he designed larger parks for the enjoyment of scenery. Cherokee Park was beautiful, the citizens of Louisville were quite pleased with the outcome. The tall, ols, thick trees gave Cherokee Park its look. The trees provided privacy from the city and gave the park a genuine beauty. Unfortunately all of that would change on April 3, 1974. A tornado ravaged through Louisville causing millions of dollars of damage and destroying Cherokee Park. The trees that made the park famous were now lying dead on the ground. Citizens said you couldn't even r
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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