ABSTRACT
New York City's Central Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the mid-1800s. The Olmsted Brothers envisioned a system of grand parks, greenbelts, and boulevards wrapping all the way around Lake Washington. A few pieces of this larger scheme were built, such as Lake Washington Boulevard. The City of Kirkland has created a necklace of small waterfront parks along its portion of Lake Washington. The lowering of the level of Lake Washington in the 1920s left many sloughs of peat and muck that even back then, no one considered to be worth much of anything. One of the most breathtaking views in North America is from the little, arched stone bridge that spans part of the lake that is located in the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. All of the parks and open spaces suggest that the communities around Lake Washington are finally emerging as true cities.
