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If only they'd let people build high-rise buildings around Golden Gate Park (same designer) . We'd have lots of beautiful apartment with gorgeous views of the p

If only they'd let people build high-rise buildings around Golden Gate Park (same designer) . We'd have lots of beautiful apartment with gorgeous views of the park just like NYC. Golden Gate Park is larger than Central Park and as far a I know has a much larger diversity of features tho it's doesn't feel as well maintained. * conservatory * art museum * science museum / aquarium * peddle boat pond * rose garden * two racing tracks * Rc boat pond * buffalo coral * two windmills one with tulip garden * soccer field * japnese garden and I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff. it's a great park. I know some people will downvote this because they want Golden Gate Park / SF to stay as it is.

enhdless 7y ago
Just wanted to note that Olmsted ultimately didn't design GGP - the city consulted him for advice, which they ultimately ignored. William Hammond Hall, the topographic engineer, ended up being the commissioner.
- ghaff 7y ago
  Olmsted favored a different site [1] and, as I recall, the story was that when the city didn't go along Olmsted declined to be involved--at least to any significant degree. [1] https://fromthethicket.com/2011/03/29/who-really-designed-golden-gate-park/ https://fromthethicket.com/2011/03/29/who-really-designed-go... "Interestingly, when Olmsted came to San Francisco in 1865, at the invitation of prominent citizens, and surveyed the landscape to determine a suitable location for a large urban park, he proposed an entirely different location and a very different configuration . . . more attuned to the lay of the land . . . a swath of park anchored by a large parcel hugging the lower, slopes of Buena Vista and Corona Heights, sweeping down to what is now Civic Center and from there turning north to the Bay in a wide, green boulevard along what is now Van Ness Avenue."

enhdless 7y ago

Just wanted to note that Olmsted ultimately didn't design GGP - the city consulted him for advice, which they ultimately ignored. William Hammond Hall, the topographic engineer, ended up being the commissioner.

ghaff 7y ago
Olmsted favored a different site [1] and, as I recall, the story was that when the city didn't go along Olmsted declined to be involved--at least to any significant degree. [1] https://fromthethicket.com/2011/03/29/who-really-designed-golden-gate-park/ https://fromthethicket.com/2011/03/29/who-really-designed-go... "Interestingly, when Olmsted came to San Francisco in 1865, at the invitation of prominent citizens, and surveyed the landscape to determine a suitable location for a large urban park, he proposed an entirely different location and a very different configuration . . . more attuned to the lay of the land . . . a swath of park anchored by a large parcel hugging the lower, slopes of Buena Vista and Corona Heights, sweeping down to what is now Civic Center and from there turning north to the Bay in a wide, green boulevard along what is now Van Ness Avenue."