Creating Central Park

by Heckscher, Morrison H.

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Title Statements

Full title :Creating Central Park / Morrison H. Heckscher.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New York, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:73, [1] pages : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; : 28 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781588392466, 1588392465, 9780300136692, 0300136692
oclc:ocn187293176
LC Classification:F128.65.C3
Dewey Decimal:712/.5097471

Director's note / Philippe de Montebello -- A note from the New York City Parks Commissioner / Adrian Benepe -- A note from the President of the Central Park Conservancy / Douglas Blonsky -- The Commissioners' plan and New York City's early parks and squares -- The decision to build an new park and the selection of its site -- Egbert L. Viele and the first park plan -- The design competition -- Vaux, Olmsted, and the Greensward Plan -- Building the park -- Calvert Vaux, Jacob Wrey Mould, and the park buildings -- Richard Morris Hunt and Central Park -- Sculpture in the park -- Central Park completed.

Subjects

Architecture du paysage -- Histoire. --… Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Histoi… Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History History Landscape architecture Landscape architecture -- History. -- N… New York (N.Y.) -- Central Park New York (N.Y.) -- Histoire New York (N.Y.) -- History New York (State) -- New York