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Cargando... Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Parkpor Frederick Law Olmsted
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A fascinating collection of historical documents covering the period from the 1850s to the 1890s and the creation of New York City's Central Park, and the controversies that surrounded how the park was to be developed, managed and used by the public. To a certain extent, Frederick Law Olmstead, Sr. (one of the two original landscape designers) settles a number of scores with the Democratic "Tammany Hall" machine that made life very difficult for him, and for those that supported his particular vision of a bucolic park. This particular book is a reprint of a book that was originally published in 1928, at a period when Central Park was in decline; it would subsequently be the subject of much renovation work by Robert Moses in the 1930s, and another round of renovation work in the 1980s, after another period of decline. Many of the issues tackled in the book, such as political interference, lack of funding, and careless use by the public, still resonate today. Stretches of the book can be pretty dry reading, but there are other parts that are riveting. This particular edition, it should be noted, has a very nice fold-out map at the back. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"In partnership with Calvert Vaux, an English architect who had come to America to work with Andrew Jackson Downing, [Olmsted] won the competition (1857) for the design of New York's Central Park. Their plan in the picturesque mode excited the entire community. The immediate success of the park began a movement that in the next thirty years established large landscape-designed public open spaces in all of America's major cities. The story of Central Park is well known, but we are again reminded of its importance, origins, and effect on New York City by [this book]. Olmsted led this parks movement for the next thirty-five years, and his explanations and defenses of his park- and city-planning schemes remain pertinent and fascinating reading today. The actual landscape plans he produced are also instructive...." —Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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