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A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens Kiley Reid rare to essential"Bright, cheerful houses, well arranged, well trimmed lawns, hedging carefully cut . . . distinctly joyous," wrote architectural critic Herbert Croly in 1914 about the Forest Hills Gardens community in Queens, New York. The New York Tribune agreed, reporting that the place was a "modern Garden of Eden, a fairy tale too good to be true." Conceived as an experiment that would apply the new "science" of city planning to a suburban setting, Forest Hills