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Symposia and Workshops
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The Institute works with multiple partners to plan and conduct conferences, symposia, workshops and other public forums to bring urban park and greenspace experts from around the world to share information with the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region and to share our experiences with others.
Olmsted Symposium
In 2003 the Urban Greenspaces Institute, working with Portland Parks and Recreation, the Portland Park Board, Portland State University’s Geography Department, American Society of Landscape Architects, Seattle’s Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks, hosted the Olmsted Landscape Legacy, 1903 to 2003 symposium at Portland State University. More than 300 park and trail advocates came together in Portland and Seattle to celebrate the centennial of John Charles Olmsted’s park master plans for Portland and Seattle. |
| The Urban Greenspaces Institute took a lead role in planning and carrying out the 2003 Olmsted centennial symposium at Portland State University. |
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| In his 1903 Portland Park Masterplan, which John Charles Olmsted, presented to the citizen park board, he advocated for a comprehensive, interconnected park system. |
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| John Charles Olmsted’s 1903 Portland park master plan, which called for the creation of a comprehensive system of parks, trails, natural areas, boulevards, and parkways remains the inspiration for our modern day regional parks, Greenspaces, and trails planning. |
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| The 2003 Olmsted Symposium brought together Olmsted scholars like Boston’s Arleyn Levee with local Olmsted enthusiasts and park advocates such as Portland Park Board members Williams Hawkins III and Barbara Walker. |
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| From left to right, May Kitch, The Oregonian editorial board; William Hawkins III, Portland Park Board; Gregg Everhart, trail planner for Portland Parks and Recreation; Arleyn Levee, Olmsted Scholar, discuss John Charles Olmsted’s visionary plan for Portland Parks and the future of Portland Parks. |
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John Charles Olmsted, adopted son of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., was invited to Portland by the citizen park board. Olmsted's visionary plan for a comprehensive, interconnected park system remains an inspiration to modern park planners, In his report Olmsted noted, "Marked economy in municipal development may also be effected by laying out parkways and park, while land is cheap, so as to embrace streams that carry at times more water than can be taken care of by drain pipes of ordinary size. Thus brooks or little rivers which would otherwise become nuisances that would some day have to be put in large underground conduits at enormous expense, may be made the occasion for delightful local pleasure grounds or attractive parkways."
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