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  2. Landscape architect - Wikipedia

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    Business card for eighteenth century landscape architect Humphry Repton, by Thomas Medland Landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and the team they gathered to execute the Greensward Plan, their 1858 design for Central Park in Manhattan, photographed in 1862 at the park standing on the pathway atop the span of the Willowdell Arch (from the left: Andrew Haswell Green ...

  3. Ian McHarg - Wikipedia

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    Ian L. McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture, city planning and public policy. [1]

  4. List of Olmsted works - Wikipedia

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    The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada.

  5. MKSK - Wikipedia

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    MKSK is an American planning, urban design, and landscape architecture firm. The company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1990.The firm is known for its work reshaping Central Ohio, particularly downtown Columbus. [1]

  6. Charles Eliot (landscape architect) - Wikipedia

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    Eliot's work has left a lasting mark on greater Boston.He published conceptual plans for the esplanades along the Charles River in Boston proposed earlier by Charles Davenport and others, and as the consulting landscape architect for the Metropolitan Park Commission, he supervised the acquisition of much of the riverfront in Boston, Watertown, and Newton.

  7. AIA Columbus - Wikipedia

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    AIA Columbus is a chapter of the American Institute of Architects.Founded in 1913, it is one of the largest urban components of the American Institute of Architects in the Midwestern United States, with members throughout Central and Southeastern Ohio.

  8. Sustainable landscape architecture - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable landscape architecture is a category of sustainable design concerned with the planning and design of the built and natural environments. [1] [2]The design of a sustainable landscape encompasses the three pillars of sustainable development: economic well-being, social equity and environmental protections.

  9. Columbus Park of Roses - Wikipedia

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    The free public park is operated by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. The Park of Roses was established in 1952, following ideas for a city hall rose garden in 1946. The park was landscaped and planted in 1952 and 1953, opening in June 1953. The American Rose Society held its headquarters at the park beginning in 1952.