At 11:19 AM -0500 11/10/00, Milton M Klein wrote:
>        Try reading Olmsted's writings or his biography, FLO by Laura
>Roper.  Olmsted made several reports on the need for parks in New York
>City and Brooklyn, and ha may have commented on sanitary conditions as a
>justification for the parks.

You should take his remarks with a grain of salt; he wanted to build his
park and wanted the communities in the land out of his way.

mike

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