A Historical Study on the Establishment of Boston Park System

Abstract

The establishment of Boston park system was the pioneering project of American park system. It started from around 1850, and established gradually, taking almost half century. The planning concept was to develop urban park., and at the same time, to conserve excellent, vulnerable natural resources. The process of actualization was accompanied with many difficulties, however, we could find a lot of design and planning innovations. The first stage of park movement lay on the Back-Bay filling project, and it produced Common-wealth Ave., and eventually established public Garden. The second was the construction of the Emerald Necklace, and the third was the Metropolitan park system. It was Important that leading landscape architects, such as Horace Cleveland, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles Eliot were involved in the movement of Boston park system.