Central Park's adventure-style playgrounds : renewal of a midcentury legacy / Marie Warsh ; with a foreword by M. Paul Friedberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warsh, Marie, author.

Contributor:

Friedberg, M. Paul, 1931- writer of foreword.

Series:

Modern landscapes

Modern landscapes: transition & transformation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central Park Conservancy (New York, N.Y.).

Playgrounds--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Playgrounds.

Playgrounds--Design and construction.

Playgrounds--Conservation and restoration--New York (State)--New York.

Conservation and restoration.

History.

Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.

Central Park (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

New York (State)--New York--Central Park.

New York (State).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 163 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental "playground revolution" still remain. Marie Warsh tells the engrossing history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, grassroots movements, and child-development theories of the period. She further details the Central Park Conservancy's efforts decades later to preserve and renew these playgrounds for contemporary use"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: A view of the adventure-style playgrounds of Central Park / by M. Paul Friedberg

Editor's introduction: valuing a layered design legacy / by Charles A. Birnbaum

The playgrounds of the past

Adventure playground and the playground revolution

The adventure-style playgrounds of Central Park

Preservation and stewardship of adventure-style playgrounds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0807172014

9780807172018

OCLC:

1090998976