Getting it Together in Franklin Park: The Past and Future of a Boston Landmark (Event Video)

Franklin Park is one of the great urban parks in the world. Generations of Bostonians have loved this landscape and invested it with many diverse memories and meanings. Today the park is at a turning point. Mayor Wu has approved an Action Plan to guide its future, and the city and its partners have proposed new multi-million dollar construction projects. The time is right to consider the past, as well as the future, of Franklin Park.

The speaker is Ethan Carr is a professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His latest book is Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City (Amherst: Library of American Landscape History, 2023).

This event was held on March 16, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. at the Grove Hall Branch of the BPL. It was co-sponsored by the Grove Hall Branch, the Dorchester Historical Society and the JP Historical Society. Click on the triangle below to watch the presentation. 

The Franklin Park Action Plan mentioned in the talk is available here: https://franklinparkactionplan.com/