In April 1858, the park commissioners selected Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's "Greensward Plan" as the winning design.[79][80][81] Three other plans were designated as runners-up and featured in a city exhibit.[80][82] Unlike many of the other designs, which effectively integrated Central Park with the surrounding city, Olmsted and Vaux's proposal introduced clear separations with four sunken transverse roadways.[83] The plan eschewed symmetry, instead opting for a more picturesque design.[84] It was influenced by the pastoral ideals of landscaped cemeteries such as Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Green-Wood in Brooklyn.[83][85] The design was also inspired by Olmsted's 1850 visit to Birkenhead Park in England,[86] which is generally acknowledged as the first publicly funded civil park in the world.[87][88][89] According to Olmsted, the park was "of great importance as the first real Park made in this country—a democratic development of the highest significance".[84][90]