The design allows the park's past to resonate in park users' contemporary experience--and for Boston former sensibility to mingle with its present aesthetic.

The design also allows Boston to imagine expanded possibilities for its efforts to restore the Fens. In this design a past landscape is not literally restored but its landscape type is reconstructed. And its presence allows other histories--the Rose Garden, the MFA, and the Stadium--to acquire new associations and meanings that make the experience of the landscape richer.