cultural landscapes

culture can be expressed in many ways, but perhaps the most concrete of ways is how humans build on the landscape...or reshape the landscape entirely. transformations of nature offer a fascinating window into how we view and value our surroundings, each other, and history.  cultural landscapes is a collection of many such transformations, including a visual tour of jens jenson's landscaping of chicago parks (jenson is the lesser known contemporary of frederick law olmstead, designer of central park in NYC, the US capitol grounds, the fens in boston, as well as having a hand in yosemite and other major attractions).