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    The Buffalo Olmsted Park System is the oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in the United States. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1860s-1870s to address urban problems in Buffalo by providing green spaces and connecting corridors. The system includes three primary parks - the Parade, Front, and Park - as well as tree-lined parkways connecting them. This innovative design established the first coordinated parkway system in the country and set the standard for urban park planning.

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    The Buffalo Olmsted Park System is the oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in the United States. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1860s-1870s to address urban problems in Buffalo by providing green spaces and connecting corridors. The system includes three primary parks - the Parade, Front, and Park - as well as tree-lined parkways connecting them. This innovative design established the first coordinated parkway system in the country and set the standard for urban park planning.

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    The Buffalo Olmsted Park System is the oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in the United States. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1860s-1870s to address urban problems in Buffalo by providing green spaces and connecting corridors. The system includes three primary parks - the Parade, Front, and Park - as well as tree-lined parkways connecting them. This innovative design established the first coordinated parkway system in the country and set the standard for urban park planning.

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    The Buffalo Olmsted Park System is the oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in the United States. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1860s-1870s to address urban problems in Buffalo by providing green spaces and connecting corridors. The system includes three primary parks - the Parade, Front, and Park - as well as tree-lined parkways connecting them. This innovative design established the first coordinated parkway system in the country and set the standard for urban park planning.

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    1. What is the Buffalo Park system?

    How did it transformed the Urban problems of the City of


    Buffalo?
    - The Buffalo Olmsted Park System is the America’s first system of parks, parkways and circles,
    and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was also the oldest
    coordinated system of public parks and parkways in America. The designers and planners
    incorporated some concept of “French romance” in to the design of the park which is the
    very concept of the city of Paris. The Buffalo park system consist of three different parks
    with three unique sites and three unique designs: the Front a public ceremonial space, the
    Parade a military drill ground, and the Delaware a very large park featuring a naturalistic
    landscape. All three parks were connected by broad “parkways” which excluded all
    commercial traffic. They form green corridors which extended the park experience
    throughout the city.
    the original plan for the city had provided for good transportation, sewage disposal, and
    housing, but had neglected its “environs.” He went on to describe how his 1872, “late
    additions,” had solved this problem by introducing “a series of new features.”
    Olmsted did more than “counteract the dangers” of the growing city’s “unhealthful” and
    “cheerless landscape conditions.” The comprehensive park plan he and Vaux began designing
    for the city of Buffalo in 1869 featured the first coordinated parkway system in the nation and
    introduced the concept of a municipal recreational system. In his plan for the Buffalo Park
    System, Olmsted established the standard for park design.
    In 1868, when Olmsted was called in by city commissioners to create a park for Buffalo, he
    quickly perceived possibilities beyond the imagination of his peers. His design expanded on the
    lines of the city laid out by Joseph Ellicott, a former assistant to Pierre L’Enfant in the planning of
    D.C., and created “improvements” ranging from solving problems of drainage and soil quality to
    developing the six hundred acres of park land for civic enjoyment. Olmsted envisioned not one
    but three primary parks: the Parade, a ground dedicated to recreation and “popular festivities”;
    the Front, a slightly elevated area with dramatic views of Lake Erie; and the Park, a 350-acre
    pastoral landscape at the edge of the city. These parks were connected by a network of broad,
    tree-lined streets called parkways, some of which contained separate lanes for carriages,
    equestrians and pedestrians. Although Olmsted and Vaux developed the idea of a scenic
    parkway for ProspectPark in Brooklyn and also attempted to sell the concept in Chicago, Albany,
    and Newark, it was the Buffalo park design that finally gave him the freedom to install the
    country’s first coordinated parkway system.
    The BuffaloPark system provided visitors with the recreational amenities of city parks—including
    ballfields and facilities for social events, as well as “pristine” scenery and secluded areas—all
    connected with parkways that provided easy transportation from places of work to this oasis of
    recreation and relaxation. Olmsted was acutely conscious of the need for public transportation
    to the park from the suburbs and distant portions of the city, a priority illustrated by the black
    and red lines highlighting his map’s various train routes. In an April 1876 letter to George
    Waring Jr. written the month before the Centennial opened, Olmsted called Buffalo “the best
    planned city, as to its streets, public places, and grounds, in the United States, if not the world.”
    Two years later, his map display was presented at the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

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