Its the paradoxical nature again similar to that of wilderness, we can’t have it both ways. Today Olmsted’s works are admired, but are widely and wrongly assumed to be bits of “nature” in the city, rather than places that were designed to …show more content…
Our society continually wants to connect to the outdoors, ‘an intrepid figure perched high up in one of his own creations’ shows the control of humans over nature. There is an essence of creative destruction by which we create landscapes that we believe fit the ‘identity’ of the land, that we are truly restoring and transforming the space for the better but it begs the question, ‘Restoring to what’ Pg 23 Trigger. Landscapes of the city and wilderness are polar opposites, they display the nature of human intervention and the destructive ways of life, an ever symbolic reminder that our environment around us is in Olmsted’s words, ‘Not infinitely