Download or read book Documents of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minutes of Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park for the Year Ending April 30 written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creating Central Park written by Morrison H. Heckscher and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Laws Respecting the Central Park and Other Works Under the Control of the Department of Public Parks written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Minutes and Documents of the Board of Commissioners written by New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Parks and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Laws of the State of New York written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Compilation of the Laws of the State of New York Relating Particularly to the City of New York written by New York (State). and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The iconography of Manhattan Island written by I.N. Phelps Stokes and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1915 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections

Download or read book A Clearing In The Distance written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, and Boston's Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross. Rybczynski's passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted's immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure.

Download or read book American Canopy written by Eric Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Michael Pollan's "Second Nature," this fascinating and unique historical work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of our nation's history.

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks written by New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Parks and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Park and the People written by Roy Rosenzweig and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.