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Design with nature and culture: The Long Meadow, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York as exemplar of an urban park compatible with its past

1982; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 2; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01445170.1982.10412417

0144-5170

George E. Patton, William F. Menke,

Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

Abstract The Long Meadow in Brooklyn, New York's Prospect Park is a superb example of Frederick Law Olmsted's and Calvert Vaux's ability to capture in physical form the philosophical idea of a ‘sense of enlarged freeedorh’.1 It is the dynamic unfolding of spaces within the meadow which, taken together, create an image which is larger than its individual components. The Long Meadow is quite probably the best work produced by the Olmsted and Vaux collaboration. Since the late 1860s the Long Meadow has epitomized the best qualities of landscape architecture as described by Frederick Law Olmsted: ‘a broad stretch of slightly undulating meadow without defined edges, itself lost in a maze of shadows of scattered trees’. 2 Annual Report to Park Commissioners (1871). (See figure 10.)