parkways. she talks about how those innovation were later used in the development of america's freeway system. >> okay, gang. today we are looking at the development of roads and the role of the landscape architect. the modern freeway that you guys drive every day has its roots in landscape architecture and park planning that we've been talking about this semester. this familiar landscape, which everyone should, i hope, recognize, which is of course prospect park. so we look at central park, then at prospect park. the next great park in the 1860s. they designed roads associated with this park. these were intended to be broad, tree-lined streets, spinning off the edges of the park in here. and there were originally supposed to be four. two were actually built, eastern and ocean parkway. here is a view of ocean parkway from 1894. if we think about this, which is the first, one of the first references to parkways in the united states, olmsted and vox based their idea off an avenue in paris, if you think about the work we talked about earlier, in this early conception of the parkway they're thinki