Central Park 1857-1995: The Birth, Decline, and Renewal of a National Treasure - Hardcover

Kinkead, Eugene

9780393025316: Central Park 1857-1995: The Birth, Decline, and Renewal of a National Treasure

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393025314 ISBN 13: 9780393025316

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990

Traces the development of Central Park, the first designed urban park in the U.S., and describes its rehabilitation after years of mismanagement

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From Library Journal:

Urban naturalist Kinkead's delightful essays on aspects of Central Park have appeared in The New Yorker and in two books, A Concrete Look at Nature (LJ 12/15/74) and Wildness Is All Around Us (LJ 7/78). Now he recounts the whole history of the Park: its design by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, its construction, the sports-oriented transformation by Robert Moses, the five decades of decline, and the remarkable restoration that began in 1979 and continues with the help of the heroic Central Park Conservancy. A sanctuary of trees, grass, flowers, and birds in the midst of a great city has turned out to be a superb use of public money. This upbeat book is appealing on many levels--as nature writing, as a successful preservation story, and as New York City history. Recommended for public libraries.
- Priscilla E. Pratt, M.L.S., East Setauket, N.Y.
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