At this time, 200 years after his start, Olmsted’s rules appear extra well timed than ever. He noticed parks as restorative locations and facilities of neighborhood. “We wish a floor to which individuals might simply go after their day’s work is completed,” he wrote, “and the place they might stroll for an hour, seeing, listening to and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets, the place they shall, in impact, discover town put distant from them.”