Seeing Central Park

Author : Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1683358791
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( 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.

Author : Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543905
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( 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.

Author : Cynthia S. Brenwall
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353188
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( 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.

Author : Sandee Brawarsky
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781584792246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 212 Views of Central Park written by Sandee Brawarsky and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious souvenir of Manhattan's unique urban arcadia, 212 Views of Central Park shares the experience of being in Central Park through every season with out-of-town visitors and New York residents alike -- an experience as varied as the park's many structures, landscapes, activities, and environments.

Author : Andrew Zega
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847840794
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Park NYC written by Andrew Zega and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether depicted as originally designed or in contemporary portraits, Central Park's architectural and ornamental highlights are delineated in ravishing watercolors rendered in exquisite detail. With chapters firmly grounded by extensive research and informed by a broad knowledge of architectural and social history--complemented by numerous contemporary and archival photographs, as well as maps of the park--the authors examine the actors, intentions and ideas guiding the creation and evolution of this national treasure and delve into its many extraordinary details, offering us a fresh vision of New York's beloved Central Park"--Dust jacket.

Author : Trisha Meili
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743256077
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am the Central Park Jogger written by Trisha Meili and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-04-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room—comatose—she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it’s a miracle she's still alive. Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Called “Hero of the Month” by Glamour magazine, Meili tells us who she was before the attack—a young Wall Street professional with a promising future—and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life. With “moments of unexpected grace and insights into life’s challenges….Meili’s story—the story the public never knew—is unforgettable” (The Buffalo News).

Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night Books
ISBN 13 : 1602191131
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Night Central Park written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Park, An American Masterpiece written by and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the park's 150th anniversary, this first definitive history celebrates the splendor and significance of this national treasure. 316 illustrations, 200 in color.

Author : Karen Putnam
Publisher : City
ISBN 13 : 9781885492647
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York's 50 Best Places to Discover and Enjoy in Central Park written by Karen Putnam and published by City. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcia Reiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607100072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Park Then and Now written by Marcia Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore central park, the heart of New York city and the very first landscape public park in the United States. Central Park Then and Now presents compelling historic and contemporary images of this famous park from throughout its 150 year history and across its 843-acre sylvan landscape filled with a unique urban vitality."--Book jacket.