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1900 Park Commissioners Report, pp.10-11
Discusses the amount of plantings, soil moving, terreforming, and landscape change that went on at Riverside Park, Lake Park, and Newberry Blvd in the year of 1900.
1900 Park Commissioners Report, pp.10-11
Discusses the amount of plantings, soil moving, terreforming, and landscape change that went on at Riverside Park, Lake Park, and Newberry Blvd in the year of 1900.
Map print by Josephine, 8. Design was inspired by looking at maps of various places, and imagining how a bird's eye view is different from a more traditional one. Image carved on foam, printed, then over printed with 2 additional colors.
The area tinged with green encompasses the area covered by the grid for April 2008 (H30 in the MapArt books).
Courtesy of Google Maps.
Handcrafted & Hand Painted World Globes. Made Bespoke To Order In London.
Photos by Jade Fenster
Bellerby & Co Globemakers
Handcrafted & Hand Painted World Globes. Made Bespoke To Order In London.
Photos by Jade Fenster
Bellerby & Co Globemakers
Contrary to Wikipedia, the majority of Dundas St in Whitby is not Regional Hwy 2 and in Oshawa, King St and Bond St are not Regional Hwy 2. Regional Hwy 2 actually has two discontinuities in the Municipality of Clarington.
Kingston Rd in Ajax and Pickering is Regional Hwy 2.
The Regional Municipality of Durham has a list of regional roads on its site: www.durham.ca/en/living-here/regional-roads-list.aspx
I suspect the portions of former King's Highways 2, 12 and 47, which are currently not regional roads, were transferred from the province directly to Clarington, Oshawa, Uxbridge Twp and Whitby. I suspect said portions were never part of Durham Region's regional road system after the download from the Province of Ontario.
Durham has been considering adding additional portions of former King's Highway 2 to its regional road system. web.archive.org/web/20190731151849/https://icreate7.esolu...
An inset on the 2004 Edition MapArt Ontario road map colours parts of former King's Highway 2 in Durham yellow and other parts of it white, indicating that parts are regional and other parts are local, respectively. Most of Dundas is white. King and Bond are white. Two sections in Clarington are white. Former King's Highway 12 south of RR 28 is white, indicating it is a local road. The regional road numbers 2 and 12 are provided on the yellow portions with "HWY". There is no legend for the insets. A newer MapArt Golden Horseshoe atlas has a page which colours the same sections yellow or white. The atlas provides a legend for this page, which provides the meaning of the yellow colour - that a road has the status of a regional or county road.
King St, Bond St, the local part of Dundas St, the local part of Brock St, etc. are can be erroneously marked on maps as regional roads. Maps are often outdated and mark them as the King's Highways that they once were. A map error that I have come accross is Quinte West Rd 28 being marked on a parallel road on the north side of the actual Road 28. (The actual Road 28 is on the south side of Wooler. A road on the north side of Wooler gets erroneously marked as Road 28.)
A dramatic, warmly lit photograph captures a large, torn map of the Pacific Ocean, with the word 'PACIFICO' visible. A dark, abstract wooden silhouette, possibly of a bird or a stylized figure, is placed in the foreground, casting a shadow and creating a striking contrast against the yellowed map. The image evokes a sense of mystery, exploration, and decay, with the torn paper and warm, vintage lighting adding to its artistic and slightly melancholic mood.
“Why should the particular pieces of land to which the term park was first applied have been regarded as choice & peculiarly desirable possessions for so long a time & by men of such very different wants & habits?”
–Frederick L Olmsted on the Psychological Effects of Park Scenery, 1868
“Frank’s Hill,” or the Shadewald Mound Groups located along the north bank of the Wisconsin River in Richland County is on the National Register of Historic Places for “Prehistory” and “Religion” (NPS.gov). The Late Woodland Cultures (500-1000CE) traveled an extensive river networks to build animal effigy mounds and burial mounds out of their deceased. This vast river culture included settlements located on Lake Michigan and the Milwaukee River.[2]
In viewing the landscape from an aesthetic perspective, both the Shadewald Mounds and the Milwaukee River-Lake Michigan corridor share elements commonly associated with Olmsted and Romantic style landscape design – even though only the city of Milwaukee had such formal design. A place to sit underneath a tree overlooking the water, or the roundabout paths, branching off towards the top of the highest hill, closest to the water. Olmsted termed this romantic and transcendental style, calling it simply the “view” principle.[1] He applied it in the construction of Lake Park in Milwaukee, which of course was built over numerous effigy and burial mounds.
In the historic 1855 publication of The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase Lapham describes in great detail the site location and characteristics of earthwork mounds, in which he further reinforces Olmsted’s theory of landscape aesthetics. In it he states:
“The banks of rivers appear to have been their favorite localities; and in this respect they resemble the present Indians, who select sites commanding a view of the country around them (so as to detect the first approach of an enemy), and near hunting and fishing grounds. They appear also to have had an eye for the beautiful as well as the useful, in choosing their places of abode.”
The Shadewald Mound Group photos remind us of what a park might look like before it is labeled as such. Whether a threat of urbanization or environmental change, the value of beauty is a constant that resonates through the landscape through time, and is a primary driver in site location. Today, Lake Park is on the National Registry of Historic Places for significance in not only “Landscape Architecture” and “Engineering”, but for “Prehistory” and "Information Potential" as well (NPS.gov).
1. Frederick L. Olmsted, Address to {the} Prospect Park Scientific Association, 1868
2. Robert Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg, Indian Mounds of Wisconsin (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000).
Map of Lake Park (1885), Olmsted, Olmsted Eliot
Once upon a time, way back in 2011, there was a club called Electric Social that we had painted up extensively including an old school cassette tape logo we'd designed. When we had finished the project we did a few smaller canvases with the logo on as gifts for the client. A version with a blue background made its way to bar manager and good friend of id-iom's, Tommy. The canvas stayed with Tommy during numerous house moves but somewhere along the line went AWOL. Tommy was sad. Still with me?
Tommy's lovely bride-to-be, Elly, then surreptitiously got in touch with us to commission a new version as a wedding gift. As I had both a map of Sweden (where they now live) and a fresh canvas to hand I decided to do two versions and let her decide which to go with. The map was selected, packaged and dispatched to Sweden for the wedding. I'm glad to say she made it on time. Tommy is now happy again. And they all lived happily ever after.
Huge congratulations to Tommy & Elly! Send us a pic once she's framed.
Cheers
id-iom
We used to be able to see pictures taken from anyone anywhere just by zooming in on the flickr Map. It would show us the most recent 200 pictures from anyone, anywhere, any set any group or any tag. Now with the new upgrade, it will be harder to find any pictures using the map. So I guess it's back to the old way of tagging pictures.
DIALOGUE EUROPÉEN
Villemomble et Salons Libres Européens accueillent à son tour la Fédération des Beaux-
Arts Autrichiens, Wien-Schönbrunn au Château Seigneurial
Sous le patronage et en présence de
Monsieur Patrice CALMÉJANE, Maire de Villemomble, Député de la Seine
Saint-Denis
et
Madame le Ministre plénipotentiaire, Dr. Susanne KEPPLERSCHLESINGER,
Directrice du Forum Culturel Autrichien à Paris
qui prononcerons un discours d’inauguration
Présentations des artistes et de l’exposition: Madame Elisabeth LEDERSBERGERLEHOCZKY,
Vice-présidente de la Fédération des Beaux-Arts Autrichiens,
Responsable de Rolling Stars and Planets et Monsieur François Ferenc
JELENA, Président des Salons Libres Européens – Curateur
vous prient d’honorer de votre présence
LE VERNISSAGE
Vendredi 26 novembre à 18 h 30
au Château Seigneurial
1 Place Émile Ducatte – 93250 VILLEMOMBLE [Paris Est]
NYC bike map cover designs. I gave these to the Dept of Transportation for free, but they still went with an in-house rollercoaster. Sigh. By Candy Chang (More at www.candychang.com)
Handcrafted & Hand Painted World Globes. Made Bespoke To Order In London.
Photos by Jade Fenster
Bellerby & Co Globemakers