[MassHistPres] Upcoming Lectures on Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture

[Rowcroft, Jessica (DCR)]

UPCOMING LECTURES



Friends of Fairsted Presents:

The Shaping of Regions: The New York Regional Plan and the Origins of Planning in America

Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association

Thursday, March 27, 2014, 6pm



Mr. Yaro will discuss how regional thinking - an integrated approach to infrastructure growth, economic development, and environmental protection, has influenced growth and change in the Northeast. He will discuss how the visionary thinking of early leaders in the field, including Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., contributed original planning solutions to enhance the quality of life in both urban and suburban settings.



Bob has been a faculty member of Harvard, Columbia and the University of Massachusetts. He is currently Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Before his move to New York City, Bob served as Chief Planner and then Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management where he developed the Olmsted Historic Landscape Preservation Program and the 14-city Urban Heritage Park system.



6pm Reception

7pm Lecture

Wheelock College

43 Hawes Street, Brookline, MA

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Reservations required: email friendsoffairsted at gmail.com<mailto:friendsoffairsted at gmail.com>







Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age

Judith Major, PhD, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Kansas State University

Monday, May 19, 2014, 7:00-8:30pm



Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, at a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design field were beginning to diverge. Her close relationship with Frederick Law Olmsted influenced her ideas on landscape gardening, and her interest in botany and geology shaped the ideas upon which her philosophy and art criticism were based. Judith Major presents the first in-depth study of the versatile critic and author, revealing Van Rensselaer's vital role in this moment in the history of landscape architecture.



Fee: $10 member, $15 nonmember



Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building

125 Arborway

Boston, MA 02130

The direct link to register is http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1298&DayPlannerDate=5/19/2014.

Offered in collaboration with the Friends of Fairsted



Jessica A. Rowcroft
Bureau of Planning & Resource Protection
Department of Conservation & Recreation
251 Causeway St, Suite 600
Boston, MA 02114
ph:  617.626.1380
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/planning.htm


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