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Seeing Central Park

Author : Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1683358791
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Central Park written by Sara Cedar Miller and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative visual survey of New York City’s Central Park, with new photography and updated text. For more than 160 years, Central Park has been the centerpiece of New York City, with more than forty-two million visits each year. In Seeing Central Park, Sara Cedar Miller takes readers through America’s most popular and celebrated park, where natural and manmade features are interwoven into a spectacular work of art. Combining superb research and writing with breathtaking photographs, Seeing Central Park is not only a guide through every significant design feature but also a gorgeous gift book. Since the book was first published in 2009, the Conservancy has completed a number of renovations and opened new areas of the park, including the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, Rhododendron Mile, and Dene Slope. This updated edition features these landmarks alongside revised entries and new photography throughout. With its pastoral and picturesque landscapes, roads and paths, bridges, buildings, structures, and sculpture, Central Park is a living museum of superb Victorian decorative arts and landscape design. From the Pond to Harlem Meer, it’s all covered in Seeing Central Park.

Before Central Park

Author : Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543905
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Before Central Park written by Sara Cedar Miller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.

Central Park

Author : Edward J. Levine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439618127
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Central Park written by Edward J. Levine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper's Weekly reported in 1857 that no engineer had yet been able to present a feasible plan for Central Park and that "it may not ever happen." Their pessimism was misplaced, as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's Greensward Plan was approved in May 1858. By 1860, visitors were enjoying the magnificent new park's naturalistic splendor. Central Park quickly became one of New York's premier attractions, featuring the menagerie, the mall, Bethesda Fountain, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the music pavilion, the casino, and the original Croton Reservoir. The northern section of the park was more reminiscent of an untamed wilderness than of an urban park. Through historic postcards, Central Park highlights this man-made green oasis at the center of a teeming metropolis.

Saving Central Park

Author : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524733563
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Saving Central Park written by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a master's degree in city planning at Yale. And then her move to New York, where she starts a family and, when she finds being a mother and a housewife is not enough, pours herself into the protection and enhancement of the city's green spaces. Interwoven into her own story is a comprehensive history of Central Park: its design and construction as a scenic masterpiece; the alterations of each succeeding era; the addition of numerous facilities for sports and play; and finally, the "anything goes" phase of the 1960s and 70s, which was often fun but nearly destroyed the park. The two narratives continue to entwine as she finds a job in the administration of Central Park, founds the Central Park Conservancy, and transforms both the park and herself--a transformation that has led to the writing of her many books, to travels that have taken her to parks and gardens around the world, and to solidifying the prestige of one of New York's most conspicuous landmarks.

The Central Park

Author : Cynthia S. Brenwall
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353188
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Central Park written by Cynthia S. Brenwall and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of the development of New York City’s Central Park from conception to completion. Drawing on the unparalleled collection of original designs for Central Park in the New York City Municipal Archives, Cynthia S. Brenwall tells the story of the creation of New York’s great public park, from its conception to its completion. This treasure trove of material ranges from the original winning competition entry; to meticulously detailed maps; to plans and elevations of buildings, some built, some unbuilt; to elegant designs for all kinds of fixtures needed in a world of gaslight and horses; to intricate engineering drawings of infrastructure elements. Much of it has never been published before. A virtual time machine that takes the reader on a journey through the park as it was originally envisioned, The Central Park is both a magnificent art book and a message from the past about what brilliant urban planning can do for a great city.

Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park

Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report on the Improvement of the Central Park, New York

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report on the Improvement of the Central Park, New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Central Park

Author : John S. Berman
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760738863
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Central Park written by John S. Berman and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, America’s first and largest urban landscaped park features meandering paths and lush vegetation. The amazing story of the park’s creation and evolution is revealed in more than 100 vintage photographs dating back to the mid-1800s, along with fascinating details on such landmarks as Belvedere Castle, the Reservoir and the Ramble.

Creating Central Park

Author : Morrison H. Heckscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300136692
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Creating Central Park written by Morrison H. Heckscher and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable "Greensward” plan submitted by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted was selected. This book tells the fascinating story of how an extraordinary work of public art emerged from the crucible of New York City politics. From William Cullen Bryant’s 1844 editorial calling for "a pleasure ground of shade and recreation” to the completion of construction in 1870, the history of Central Park is an urban epic--a tale not only of animosity, political intrigue, and desire but also of idealism, sacrifice, and genius.

Explanatory Notices of a Design for Laying Out the Central Park

Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explanatory Notices of a Design for Laying Out the Central Park written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Central Park Five

Author : Sarah Burns
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529358981
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Central Park Five written by Sarah Burns and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case of the Central Park Five is being revisited with a new acclaimed Netflix limited series on the subject, When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay. This is the only book that is going to tell you all you need to know about one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history. A trial that, thirty years on, still bears a striking, and unsettling, resemblance to our current political climate in the era of President Donald Trump. In April 1989, a white woman who came to be known as the 'Central Park jogger' was brutally raped and severely beaten, her body left crumpled in a ravine. Amid the staggering torrent of media coverage and public outcry that ensued, exposing the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time, five teenagers were quickly apprehended - four black and one Hispanic. All five confessed, were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim. Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect. In The Central Park Five, Sarah Burns, who has worked closely with the young men to uncover and document the truth, recounts the ins and outs of this historic case for the first time since their convictions were overturned, telling, at last, the full story of one of America's most legendary miscarriages of justice.

American Impressionism and Realism

Author : Helene Barbara Weinberg
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870997009
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book American Impressionism and Realism written by Helene Barbara Weinberg and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the continuities and differences between American Impressionism and Realism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park

Author : Raymond Carroll
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402758331
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park written by Raymond Carroll and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Park: it’s New York City’s urban paradise, and this colorful guidebook documents every stunning inch of it. A detailed map covers all 843 acres, with icons pointing out the best photo sites, most important monuments and statues, locations of restaurants and public services, and many other features. The highlighted attractions include Belvedere Castle, the Wildlife Center & Zoo, and great bird watching spots, while a handy sports section offers comprehensive information on jogging, tennis, biking, and rowing. Plus, you’ll find leads on six walking tours, a seasonal flowering guide to the park’s plants and trees, and ideas for fun kids’ activities. With over 100 full-color photographs, including a full illustrated history of the park, this outstanding volume is packed with fascinating facts about New York’s popular garden spot.

The City of New York

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Description of the New York Central Park

Author : Clarence Cook
Publisher : New York : F.J. Huntington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Description of the New York Central Park written by Clarence Cook and published by New York : F.J. Huntington. This book was released on 1869 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Central Park Zoo

Author : Joan Scheier
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738511009
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Central Park Zoo written by Joan Scheier and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless New Yorkers, as well as visitors from all parts of the world, have experienced an oasis just a few feet off Fifth Avenue in the heart of Manhattan. Since the 1860s, Central Park has been the home of three different zoos: the menagerie, the zoo of 1934, and what is today known as the Central Park Zoo. The Central Park Zoo begins with the menagerie of the 1860s, an impromptu public zoo begun when citizens and circuses started donating animals to the city. It continues in 1934, when Robert Moses-perhaps the most influential man in the city's planning history-built a newer zoo, remembered to this day for its lions, tigers, elephants, and gorillas. It ends with the brand new zoo and exhibits built in 1988 under the supervision of the Wildlife Conservation Society. With stunning, rarely seen images, The Central Park Zoo not only is a treat for the eyes but also comes alive with the barking of sea lions, the soft fur of snow monkeys, the sweet smell of peanut butter, and the taste of "ice cakes"-treats for the zoo residents, of course.

Metamorphoses of the Zoo

Author : Ralph R. Acampora
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739134566
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphoses of the Zoo written by Ralph R. Acampora and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metamorphoses of the Zoo marshals a unique compendium of critical interventions that envision novel modes of authentic encounter that cultivate humanity's biophilic tendencies without abusing or degrading other animals. These take the form of radical restructurings of what were formerly zoos or map out entirely new, post-zoo sites or experiences. The result is a volume that contributes to moral progress on the inter-species front and eco-psychological health for a humankind whose habitats are now mostly citified or urbanizing.