on "lectures in history" heidi hohmann teaches a class on roads. parkways and how innovations for those were later used in the development of america's freeways. she highlights the work of the olmsted firm and describes how many parkways were described as aesthetic experiences, not just roads between places. her class is about an hour and 10 minutes. okay, gang, today we are looking at the development of roads and the role of landscape architect in early road development. you guys probably don't know a lo

on "lectures in history" heidi hohmann teaches a class on roads. parkways and how innovations for those were later used in the development of america's freeways. she highlights the work of the olmsted firm and describes how many parkways were described as aesthetic experiences, not just roads between places. her class is about an hour and 10 minutes. okay, gang, today we are looking at the development of roads and the role of landscape architect in early road development. you guys probably don't know a lot of landscape architects that do roads. it is not something we generally associate with landscape architecture but it wasn't always so. in fact, the modern freeway that you guys drive every day has its roots in landscape architecture in the park planning that we've been talking about this semester. i'll start with a little bit of review and this familiar landscape which everyone should, i hope, recognize, which of course is prospect park. so we look at the development of central park. then we look at prospect park, which is olmsted's next great pa

. >>> >>> on lectures in history, iowa state university professor heidi hohmann talks about development of the parkways and freeways. she describes how many early parkways were imagined at aesthetic experiences and not just roads between places. her class is about an hour and ten minutes. today we are looking at the development of roads and the role of the landscape architect in early road development. you guys probably don't know a lot of landscape architects that do roads. it is not something we generally associate with landscape architecture but it wasn't always so. in fact, the modern freeway that you guys drive every day has its roots in landscape architecture and the park planning we've talked about already in this semester. i'll start with this review and familiar landscape that everyone should, i hope, recognize which is of course prospect park. we look at development of central park. then prospect park which was olmstead's next great park in the late 1860s. they designed roads associated with this park. these were intended to be broad tree-lined streets spinning off the edges o