Park and the People A History of Central Park

Name: Park and the People A History of Central Park
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ISBN: 9780801497513

ISBN-10: 0801497515

ISBN-13: 9780801497513

Edition: 1998

Authors: Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar

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Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.35" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Creating Central Park



The Gentleman from Europe and the Idea of a Great Park



"Give Us a Park...Central or Sidelong...A Real Park, A Large Park"



Private to Public Property



Designing and Building Central Park



The Design Competition



The Greensward Plan and Its Creators



Building for "the Public and Posterity"



Andrew Green and the Model Park



The Elite Park



"The Great Rendezvous of the Polite World"



"A Park Properly So-Called"



Redefining Central Park



The "Spoils of the Park"



Reshaping Park Politics



The "Many Sided, Fluent, Thoroughly American" Park



A Public Menagerie and Two Private Museums



The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City



The Fragmented Park



Will They Ever Drain the Reservoir? Modernizing the Park



Robert Moses and a New Deal



The Past Fifty Years



Scenes from a Park, 1941-1980



"Whose Park Is It Anyway?"


Note on Citations


Abbreviations Used in Notes


Notes


Illustration Credits


Index