<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; ">MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History</div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; "><b>"A Landscape Architect in the Twin Cities: Western Settlement, Indian Mounds, and America's Most Radical Park System"</b></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; ">Aaron Sachs</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Department of History, Cornell University</div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Western settlement after the Civil War might call to mind new, sprawling cities, dominated by the Railroad and laid out by speculators on rigid grids, no matter what the topography; or rugged dry-land farming; or long cattle drives; or the Indian Wars on the plains. Environmental historians might immediately think of Yosemite and Yellowstone and the rise of the wilderness mythos. But something strange was happening in Minneapolis and St Paul, whose civil leaders had hired the landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland to shape their rapidly expanding cities according to an old-fashioned aesthetic -- one that challenged mainstream notions of Progress through a direct engagement with history and with the cycles and limits of nature.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; ">February 24, 2012</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; ">2-30 - 4 PM</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; ">Building E51-095</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; ">Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; ">Cambridge</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Sponsored by the MIT History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list contact <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>.</div></body></html>