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Travel with Rick Steves

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Frederick Olmsted: The Father of Landscape Architecture

Rick Steves: Frederick Olmsted is often called the father of landscape architecture. He lived and worked in South Brookline, Massachusetts; a stone's throw from Emerald Necklace. Cott produced PBS documentary special on Olmsted that celebrated his bicentennial last year. "He so strongly believed in democracy in the park," Steves says.

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