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PublisherLibrary of American Landscape Hi-Story

ISBN-101952620368

ISBN-139781952620362

eBay Product ID (ePID)25057260440

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Book TitleWriting the City : Essays on New York

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLandscape, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), Essays

Publication Year2022

GenreNature, Travel, Architecture

AuthorElizabeth Barlow Rogers

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-947106

ReviewsTo save a city, you must appreciate it first. By founding the Central Park Conservancy, a model for public-private partnership, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers has done much to save the landscapes of New York. Yet there would be little interest in such preservation without a deeper understanding of the culture and history of what needed to be preserved...the collection is both a historical and personal reflection on a lifetime of urban preservation

Table Of ContentContents Preface by Robin Karson Introduction Part I. Below and Above the Ground Bedrock, Sand, and Water: The Geological Landscape of New York City New York: A Once and Future Arcadia The Hudson River: Then and Now "An American Kew": The Transformation of Bronx Park into the New York Botanical Garden Representing Nature: The Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History Part II. Along the Shoreline On Phillip Lopate's Waterfront: A Journey around Manhattan Beneath the Great Bridge: A Park Grows in Brooklyn On New York's Aged Waterfront, a Pinch of Salt Part III. In and About the Parks Green-Wood Cemetery: Scenic Repose among the Shades Designing Prospect Park Robert Moses and the Transformation of Central Park Thirty-three New Ways You Can Help Central Park's Renaissance Jane and Me Notes Index

SynopsisThe eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. These include, most importantly, the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, the organization that transformed Central Park from one of the city's most degraded amenities into its most valuable. Many of Rogers's essays relate to this remarkable achievement, and the insight and administrative acumen that propelled it.The first section of Writing the City, "Below and Above the Ground," explores New York's physical make up, especially its geology, as well as the origins of another of New York's world-class landscapes, the New York Botanical Garden. "Along the Shoreline" features an insightful review of Phillip Lopate's Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan and two other essays about the city's edges, one of which focuses on Brooklyn Bridge Park.In the last section in the collection, "In and About the Parks," Rogers's understanding of culture, architecture, urban planning history, and landscape architecture come together in five insightful essays. Subjects range from Green-Wood Cemetery and Prospect Park in Brooklyn to "Thirty-three New Ways You Can Help Central Park's Renaissance," published in New York Magazine in 1983. The concluding essay, "Jane and Me," offers new perspectives on the urban theorist and activist Jane Jacobs, whose writings catalyzed Rogers's own interest in urban planning in the 1960s., The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. These include, most importantly, the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, the ......, The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. Most important among these is the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, the organization that transformed one of the city's most degraded places into its most valuable., The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. These include, most importantly, the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, the organization that transformed Central Park from one of the city's most degraded amenities into its most valuable. Many of Rogers's essays relate to this remarkable achievement, and the insight and administrative acumen that propelled it. The first section of Writing the City, "Below and Above the Ground," explores New York's physical make up, especially its geology, as well as the origins of another of New York's world-class landscapes, the New York Botanical Garden. "Along the Shoreline" features an insightful review of Phillip Lopate's Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan and two other essays about the city's edges, one of which focuses on Brooklyn Bridge Park. In the last section in the collection, "In and About the Parks," Rogers's understanding of culture, architecture, urban planning history, and landscape architecture come together in five insightful essays. Subjects range from Green-Wood Cemetery and Prospect Park in Brooklyn to "Thirty-three New Ways You Can Help Central Park's Renaissance," published in New York Magazine in 1983. The concluding essay, "Jane and Me," offers new perspectives on the urban theorist and activist Jane Jacobs, whose writings catalyzed Rogers's own interest in urban planning in the 1960s.

LC Classification NumberMLCM 2024/43188 (S)