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"Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted" from The World's Work, 1903. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.


About Frederick Law Olmsted

The Olmsted Professorships have been created to inspire future generations of transformational civil and environmental engineers with the concepts pioneered and developed by the legendary landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. Generally regarded as the father of American landscape architecture, Olmsted integrated civil and environmental engineering, community building, and natural systems to create treasured examples of multi-purpose park systems and infrastructure in 24 states and the District of Columbia. His work includes Central Park and Ocean Parkway in New York City, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, the Riverside Community in Illinois, and the Druid Hills community in Atlanta.

 


About our School

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has vibrant programs in Construction Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering/Mechanics/Materials, and Transportation Engineering. In both civil engineering and environmental engineering, the School’s undergraduate and graduate programs are consistently ranked among the top programs in the Country. The School currently has approximately 700 undergraduate and 400 graduate students, and 55 full time, tenure track faculty members.


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The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is situated at the heart of the Georgia Institute of Technology campus, in Midtown Atlanta, and benefits from its association with a vibrant, global metropolis. Georgia Tech, a unit of the University System of Georgia, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from women and members of traditionally under-represented minority groups. For more information regarding the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, please visit our School website.

 

The Frederick Law Olmsted Symposium


Learn more about the Syposium
and watch the presentations:


Keynote - The Nature of Olmsted's Genius - Douglas Allen


Urban River Parkways as Routes to Health: An Olmsted Legacy Reviving from 20th Century Coma - Richard J. Jackson


Making Places for Thriving People - Howard Frumkin


Sustainable Infrastructure: The Role of Politics and Governance - Diane E. Davis


Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.: The Long View of the North American Landscape - Frederick R. Steiner


Building Places People Love: Integrating Water Management Systems into our Cities, Towns, and Suburbs - Lynn Richards


Pleasure Drives and Promenades: The Olmsted Parkway Idea as Inspiration for Today’s Complete Streets - Elizabeth Macdonald

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