@article {O{\textquoteright}Hara219, author = {Christine Edstrom O{\textquoteright}Hara}, title = {Ecological Planning in 1920s California: The Olmsted Brothers Design of Palos Verdes Estates}, volume = {35}, number = {2}, pages = {219--235}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.3368/lj.35.2.219}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, abstract = {Cultural landscape scholars might look to the Olmsted Brothers design for Palos Verdes Estates, California, as an important early example of a landscape architecture firm{\textquoteright}s environmentally sensitive approach to community design. In this important project, Olmsted Brothers applied a sophisticated methodology gleaned from climate and soil studies, employing native plants and designing roadways and public spaces to better infiltrate stormwater. The firm{\textquoteright}s plan arguably foreshadowed Ian McHarg{\textquoteright}s ideas and contemporary green infrastructure planning. Previous scholarship on the origins of environmentally based practice has either ignored or misconstrued the firm{\textquoteright}s important environmental contributions.}, issn = {0277-2426}, URL = {https://lj.uwpress.org/content/35/2/219}, eprint = {https://lj.uwpress.org/content/35/2/219.full.pdf}, journal = {Landscape Journal} }