Central Park
Opened in 1876, the Central Park manifests ingenuity in artificial landscaping since the designers sought to integrate nature and urban scenery. Through the design process, Olmsted, as a horticulturalist, integrated the park’s terrain and vegetation to offer a diversity of flora and fauna and led to the introduction of more than 5,000,000 trees and shrubs. Diverse flora and fauna were to complement the gentle slopes to drain water while the rocky ravines at Central Park offered tourists with beautiful scenery. Designing a park for an urban center necessitated a wide area for an open-air theatre, presenting American culture and entertainment to millions of visitors to the park.
Furthermore, the security of visitors was imminent, leading to the construction of a police station. Moreover, increasing hydration and precipitation of the park implemented through the installation of a water-supply system. The planting of more than 5,000,000 trees and shrubs offered a natural environment despite the increasing urbanization of Manhattan, facilitating a leisure and entertainment ground for thousands of workers in the city.
The ingenious design of the Manhattan Island presents New York City as an icon metropolis that provides residents with a natural environment, hence improving awareness of urban planning and conservation. Moreover, urban planning sough to incorporate natural landscape thus affirming the
The fascination of Americans with environmental planning and preservation. The success of Central Park encourages other industrial cities across the globe of the necessity to have carefully planned parks and recreational centers, embracing human invention and design in the conservation of urban environments and air quality. Indeed, the horticulturalists designer Frederick Law Olmsted succeeded in making Central Park the lungs of the city through a well-landscaped pastoral setting.