5 - Comments
- Soon after the meeting Olmsted composed a strategy for the transformation of Jackson Park. His ten- page memorandum captured the essence of all he had come to believe about the art of landscape architecture and how it should strive to conjure effects greater than the mere sum of petals and leaves.
- He concentrated on the fair's central lagoon, which his dredges soon would begin carving from the jackson Park shore. Also, the dredges would leave an island at the center of the lagoon, to be called, simply, the Wooded Island.
- The fair main buildings would rise along the lagoon's outer banks. Olmsted saw that the lagoon district as the most challenging portion of the fair.
- Olmsted hoped to provide visitors with a banquet of glimpses - the undersides of leaves sparkling with reflected lights, flashes of brilliaant color between fronds of tall grass waving in the breeze.
- Sedges and ferns graceful bulrush would probaly be planted on the banks of the Wooded island to conjure density and intricacy and to slightly screen, without hiding, flowers otherwise likely to be too obtrusive.
4 - Question
- What is so important with a lagoon?
- What is a Lagoon and what does it do that is important to the main building and Olmsted?
- What type of trasformation would Olmsted do to Jackson Park?
- Is Jackson park is a historical place?
3 - Vocabulary
Dredges = Any of various machines equipped with scooping or suction devices and used to deepen harbors and waterways and in underwater mining.
Lagoon = an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
Mingling = to become mixed, blended, or united.
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = His presence was like oil on troubled water.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
- this part of the book is about recontruction jackson park (transforming Jackson Park).
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