Saving Central Park A History and a Memoir by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
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Saving Central Park A History and a Memoir by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers | 182.44 MB
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Title: Saving Central Park
Author: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Year: 2018
Description:
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from 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...
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The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from 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...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/32e021490c4ce9eef3ffcac819e598d9/Saving_Central_Park__A_History_and_a_Memoir_by_Elizabeth_Barlow_Rogers_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/0859f7bc7311c/Saving_Central_Park__A_History_and_a_Memoir_by_Elizabeth_Barlow_Rogers_.rar
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