The Emerald Necklace is a chain of parks in Boston (with a small part in Brookline) linked by waterways and riverways created by Frederick Law Olmsted (often called the "father" of the greenway movement1 and "America’s first landscape architect"2)  between 1878 and 1896. Also involved in the project were his sons, John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr, Charles Eliot, Olmstead's pupil, and other landscape architects..2 

Emerald Necklace Plant List http://www.franklinparkcoalition.org/cgxfpctheme96267/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Emerald-Necklace-Plant-List.pdf

It includes the following parks: 

  • Arnold Arboretum
  • Boston Common
  • Boston Public Gardens
  • Commonwealth Avenue Mall
  • The Fens
  • Franklin Park
  • Olmsted Park
  • The Riverway

It includes the following ponds and waterways:

  • Jamaica Pond
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External Links

http://www.cityofboston.gov/parks/emerald/

http://www.emeraldnecklace.org/park-overview/

Footnotes

1. Little, C.E., (1990). Greenways for America. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

2. https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/about/emerald-necklace/

3. Fabos, J. G. (2004) "Greenway planning in the United States: its origins and recent case studies" Landscape and Urban Planning 68 321–342

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