Saving Central Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saving Central Park write by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Saving Central Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Creating Central Park
Creating Central Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Central Park write by Morrison H. Heckscher. This book was released on 2008. Creating Central Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Rebuilding Central Park
Rebuilding Central Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebuilding Central Park write by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. This book was released on 1987-01. Rebuilding Central Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illustrated throughout with 2-color and tinted maps and drawings and numerous photographs, Rebuilding Central Park is the first close examination of these invaluable 843 acres in more than a century.
Good Night Central Park
Good Night Central Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good Night Central Park write by Adam Gamble. This book was released on 2011-11-04. Good Night Central Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area's attractions and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place. From the statues to the street performers, the most interesting aspects and features of Central Park are explored in the colorful book, including the zoo, the various pools and ponds, Lasker Pool and Rink, and the Conservatory Garden. Visitors to the Big Apple or children that call New York City home will love reading about the famous urban park.
Leaves
Leaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leaves write by Janet Lawler. This book was released on 2017-09. Leaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leaves rustle, critters scurry, and mushrooms pop up from the forest floor in this lyrical, three-dimensional look at an autumn woodland.
