“The history of these places didn’t start and stop with this man,” a landscape architect said, of Frederick Law Olmsted. “These places that were designed by him have oftentimes been at risk and have been saved by and reclaimed by communities of color.”
The landscape architect Sara Zewde met me at the corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and Central Park North, a busy intersection that overlooks both the Harlem Meer and a Dunkin’ Donuts, the park and the city. Her home andare nearby, but there’s a deeper meaning in this location for Zewde, who is one of a small number of Black women licensed in landscape architecture in the United States.
from D.C. to Louisiana. She regards Olmsted’s Southern travels and, indeed, his way with words, as a core yet understudied aspect of his career. “Obviously, Olmsted could not have seen the future and his influence on Malcolm X, but I reflect on this intersection a lot,” Zewde said. “Olmsted did talk about the value of Black people gathering,” she continued. “He didn’t foresee Harlem becoming the mecca that it is for the global Black diaspora, but here we are.
Kian Goh, an assistant professor of urban planning at U.C.L.A., said she uses Olmsted as an example of the lineage of urban parks—but one for which students swiftly see the limits. “Yes, you have idealistic ideas of full access, but, really, parks like Central Park and others have become centers of real-estate speculation in the city,” and theon Manhattan’s West Side bear this out.
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, which has a robust schedule of two-hundredth-birthday plans, has made community the centerpiece of its programming.
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