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Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106439805
Author : New York (N y ) Board of Commissioners
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347952160
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Author : Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,Jack Becker
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022536
An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Catherine McNeur
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674745148
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today’s sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York’s wild side. “[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.” —Joseph Rykwert, Times Literary Supplement “Tells an odd story in lively prose...The city McNeur depicts in Taming Manhattan is the pestiferous obverse of the belle epoque city of Henry James and Edith Wharton that sits comfortably in many imaginations...[Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past.” —Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times
Author : N. Y. Commissioners of the Central Park
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1390401901
Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park: January, 1863 The Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, in compliance With the provisions of the statute, respectfully present this report of its proceedings for the year ending with the 3lst day of December, 1862. The year opened With the public mind engrossed With the operations of the General Government, the interest in Which has continued, to its close, paramount and all absorbing. The effect of these operations upon the condition of operative industry has been very apparent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10312604
Author : Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822392248
In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of color for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Office of the Comptroller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : NYPL:33433069110199
Author : New York (N.Y.). Office of the Comptroller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UIUC:30112100065942
Author : Roy Rosenzweig,Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0801497515
Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781421410869
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) planned many parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed and defended today. His public parks, the design of which he was most proud, have had a lasting effect on urban America.
Author : Louis P. Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253218223
This volume examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through the lens of popular practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred space in America. Contributors explore how dedication sermons document shifting understandings of the meetinghouse in early 19th-century Connecticut; the changes in evangelical church architecture during the same century and what that tells us about evangelical religious life; the impact of contemporary issues on Catholic church architecture; the impact of globalization on the construction of traditional sacred spaces; the urban practice of Jewish space; nature worship and Central Park in New York; the mezuzah and domestic sacred space; and, finally, the spiritual aspects of African American yard art.
Author : Morrison H. Heckscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780300136692
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.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Parks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Parks
ISBN : PRNC:32101076898095
Author : Jane Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317569053
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.