The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-05
Landscape Architecture
by JOHN NOLEN)

tects for Hardfort, Conn: Newark,
N. u; Houston, Texas; Scranton,
Lock Haven and Erie. Penn: Schen-
ectady, N. X; Detroit, Mich; Brook
Ign, n. "; and Keokuk. Iowa; the
appointment Of city planning commits
s1ons OF civic committees by Calgary,
Winnipeg, Edmonton and Saskatoon.
Canada; the execution OF certain
features OF the Burnham plan for
Chicago as approved. The competi-
ton for plan for the new capital city
of Australia was won by Walter b.
Griffin, a landscape architect OF Chi
cago.
The national conference on city
planning held its fourth annual meet
Ing during the year at Boston. 1t
brought together larger group than
ever before and there was evidence
OF decided widening of interest and
more thorough study of the problems
involved in the convenient and artistic
development of modern cities.
Garden Suburbs.
| A special phase of landscape archi-
lecture is the development of garden
cities or garden suburbs. A fine ex-
ample of this movement is now being
successfully worked out at Forest
Hills Gardens, Long Island, New York.
The work is being done under the
direction Of the Sage Foundation
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Forest Hills Gardens does not differ
materially from other Long Island
real estate enterprises. 1t is not a
charity. Notwithstanding the en-
phasis on the business side of the
enterprise, a distinct educational pur-
pose exists. 1t is demonstration of
the value of more scientific and more
artistic methods of handling, distrib-
uting and developing suburban land.
Other illustrations are the commune
ity design for the property of the Bos-
ton Dwelling House Co., at Forest
Hills, Mass, the suburban develop
{ ment of a thousand acres at Myers
Park, Charlotte, N. c., and the open
ing of the so-called Country Club
District" of Kansas City, Mo- These
land subdivisions show the basic
principles Of landscape architecture
the laying out of ground for use with
\ due regard to the appropriate beauty
of its appearance. 1t has been said
/ that every fifteen years 100000 acres
are distracted from the rural domain
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houses, railways, factories and work
4 shops. The area in the United States
must be much greater 1t is there
fore, important to apply right methods
in the laying out and development OF
4 iris immense tract, if outdoor art is
4 to be advanced.
Vocational Advance.
i The most certain indication of prog
|ress in landscape architecture during
j the year is the increase in the num-
her of qualified men adopting it as a
life career and the raising of the
standard of professional equipment.
\ The elaborate and systematic course
in landscape architecture now con
Quoted in the graduate school of Har-
ward University, and the regular
courses in the same field offered by
j Cornell University, Columbia Uni
i versity and the agricultural colleges
Of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Mich
[igan, Iowa and Oregon. and the total
number of students now enrolled in
these courses, give assurance that the
work Of the comparatively new pro-
fession will steadily widen in appli-
cation and improve in quality, taking
it's permanent place as profession at
the side of architecture and engineer
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