General management plan suburb of Riverside
SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT OF RIVERSIDE
Frederic Law Olmsted y Calvert Vaux
Riverside Cook County.
Chicago Illinois. 1869
Frederick Law Olmsted would plan this garden suburb outside of Chicago as a sleeping area for the gentry whose work was developed in the central part of the city. Initially connected by tram, allowing its residents live in a rural, wooded next, adapted to the geography and natural vegetation of the place.
Its distinctive curvilinear road design and generous wooded tract model set the pattern for many later developments in suburban America. Your great landscape value has been recognized by its designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
References:
Revisitando Riverside. A descriptive book of the PDF community
