Eden by Design
The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region
Greg Hise and William Deverell
Plate 1. [Original caption] View towards the mountains from the proposed parkway along the Puente Hills. Click here to view enlarged image
Plate 10. [Original caption] Map showing by dots the distribution of population in the Los Angeles Region in 1928.
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Plate 13. [Original caption] Plan for highways in the Los Angeles Region as prepared a few years ago by the Regional Planning Commission, showing a complete network of major highways.
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Plate 15. [Original caption] Plan of the Pacific Electric Railway system showing a radiating system from the heart of the Region.
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Plate 16. Map showing areas now almost wholly subdivided into house lot units. (Base map by courtesy of Automobile Club of Southern California.)
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Plate 17. [Original caption] Map showing existing park areas and quasi-public recreation areas in the Los Angeles Region. Stars show parks and play-grounds over five but under twenty-five acres in area. Green shows park areas over twenty-five acres in extent. Red shows quasi-public golf and country club areas not on public lands. (Base map by courtesy of Automobile Club of Southern California.)
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Plate 20. [Original caption] Map of the Region showing areas used for industries and oil fields and areas in agriculture for tree crops, hog farms and dairies, as prepared by the Regional Planning Commission.
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Plate 35. [Original caption] Diagram showing public and private beach frontages and key to recommendation.
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Plate 42. [Original caption] General plan for large reservations in mountains, canyons, deserts and islands (shown in red).
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Plate 43. [Original caption] Map of Angeles National Forest with additions to show camp sites, areas in private ownership, reservoirs, and large areas burned over in the last ten years.
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Plate 44. [Original caption] Map of the Los Angeles Region with the Westchester County park system superposed in red to show what that system of parks and parkways would mean to this region. Boundaries of Westchester County shown in broken lines. (Base map by courtesy of Automobile Club of Southern California.)
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Plate 45. [Original caption] Map of the Los Angeles Region with the Boston Metropolitan Park system superposed in red and with the probosed Boston Bay circuit shown cross-hatched to indicate what that park system would mean in this region. Boundaries of the Boston metropolitan District shown in broken lines. (Base map by courtesy of Automobile Club of Southern California.)
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Plate 46. [Original caption] General plan for a complete system of parkways and large parks for the Los Angeles Region. (Base map by courtesy of Automobile Club of Southern California.)