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Maria Jaakkola

Maria Jaakkola at a screening of her video about Boston's Emerald Necklace

A Finnish landscape architect tries to connect the broken pieces of Boston’s Emerald Necklace

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Finnish landscape architect and visual artist Maria Jaakkola couldn’t wait to get to Boston to see its famed Emerald Necklace, a system of interconnected city parks designed in the 19th century by the great Frederick Law Olmsted. But when she got there she was dismayed to see the state it was in. So she made a film to try and change things.