View From an East Bay Garden

The Oakland City Hall on the Horizon; W. Hegemann Collection, Gift of GR Collins and RC Weinberg, 1973; (OVER); "This realizes the 'command of distant views' set down as desirable by the elder Olmsted. Note how much of the view would gain if 'a proper foreground' of foliage would frame under the more distant prospect,' as suggested by Olmsted, instead of the less interesting houses of the immediate neighborhood."; See W. Hegemann, Report on a City Plan for the Municipalities of Oakland and Berkley (1915), p. III.