A Major Overhaul May Bring Detroit’s Palmer Park Back to its Roots

“This is an excellent start, but Palmer Park is a landscape of a layered history, and that layered history needs to be understood when managing change today,” says Charles A. Birnbaum, founder of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit that educates the public about green space preservation. “Olmsted is part of a continuum. It’s part of a story that we continue to be able to reveal today, so we can understand how to manage this landscape in the future.”