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Although the first stretch of the "South West Plank Road" (now Ogden Avenue) from Chicago to the Riverside area was not built until 1848, the original trail and the Indian ford across the DesPlaines River was a well traveled route for pioneers who wished to settle west of Fort Dearborn.
May 30, 2018 · The area used to be called “Jurupa,” a word derived from the name of the California sagebrush common in the area. But apparently it was too hard to pronounce for New Yorker John North, who...
In deliberate contrast to the teeming Chicago grid (wiped clean by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871), the plan for Riverside’s curvilinear streets was inspired by the winding Des Plaines River and the land’s natural contours.
Riverside is a suburban village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population of the village was 9,298 at the 2020 census. [4] It is a suburb of Chicago, located roughly 9 miles (14 km) west of downtown Chicago and 2 miles (3 km) outside city limits.
- A New Type of Community
- Old Man Olmstead’s Plan
- How’d Riverside Turn out?
As you can see from the map, Riverside is designed as a commuter suburb around the train station. It’s also notably not laid out in a clean grid like the city of Chicago. Instead, Olmsted insisted there be no right angle intersections and laid out streets that curved with the natural contours of the land. His landscape-design-inspired approach woul...
You can see Riverside’s strict adherence to Olmsted’s plans in this excerpt from a 1974 newsletter. Strict zoning was a natural part of Olmsted’s plan as regulations were needed to keep Riverside small, quaint and lovely. The only problem was that the world progressed. Technology changed, businesses came and went, and Riverside had pressures to mod...
Has Riverside’s extreme focus on preserving Olmsted’s original plan been for the best? Has Olmsted and his planned community succeeded as the perfect community? Can a community planned by an architect 150 years ago still be relevant to lifestyles today? I’d say it has and it hasn’t. If you visit Riversideyou’ll see a perfectly preserved town. The b...
Riverside. As one of the first planned communities in the country, Riverside serves as the realization of Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision for the ideal suburb. About Riverside. In 1869, Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux produced a plan for the new community west of Chicago.
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Riverside, on the Des Plaines River, was designed in 1868 by Frederick Law Olmsted, the nation's most famous landscape architect. The innovative street plan and the striking open spaces are regarded as landmarks in American residential planning.
