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Tacoma’s Almost Reality as an Olmsted-Designed Park City - The Urbanist

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Frederick Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture, had city-as-park designs for Tacoma, but was rebuffed. Despite an unique geography shaped by water, the layout of Tacoma speaks to a dominant mode of planning cities in the late 1800s: draw a broad rectangle and subdivide it into squares. This basic plan was recommended for Tacoma by James Tilton, head surveyor of the Washington Territory. Of this plan, the Weekly Pacific Tribune on Octob…

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