Studies on the Growth and the Development of Modern Public Park (II)

On the Background of Undertaking of Central Park in New York City

Abstract

The subject of this study is that the creation of Central Park in New York City and the establishment of its design idea was derived by many intellectual person's endeavor, and Frederick Law Olmsted superbly concentrated these factors. The direct inducement of enforcing the First Park Act is the Message of Mayor Kingsland sended to the municipal assembly, but there are many faults in the city, such as shortage and deteriorate of openspaces, because of rapid growth of urban area. At that time these are peculiar rural cemeteries in each great cities and their design had been applicated the technique of English landscape gardening, besides numbers of city dwellers visited these cemeteries almost cevery week. Both A. J. Downing and W. C. Bryant cleverly discerned those state of things and developed a intense campaigne by means of journalism. Then they've been had a considerable definite plan and idea on location, scale and design of the ground and Olmsted not only expressed his idea on composition of the park aligned himself with theirs, but lively applied his concepts on rural scenery in the center of the city.