Writing the city : essays on New York / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow, 1936- author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture--New York (State)--New York.

Landscape architecture.

Landscapes--New York (State)--New York.

Landscapes.

Parks--New York (State)--New York.

Parks.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Essays on New York

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : Library of American Landscape History, [2022]

Summary:

"The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. These include, most importantly, the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, the organization that transformed Central Park from one of the city's most degraded amenities into its most valuable. Many of Rogers's essays relate to this remarkable achievement, and the insight and administrative acumen that propelled it. The first section of Writing the City, "Below and Above the Ground," explores New York's physical make up, especially its geology, as well as the origins of another of New York's world-class landscapes, the New York Botanical Garden. "Along the Shoreline" features an insightful review of Phillip Lopate's Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan and two other essays about the city's edges, one of which focuses on Brooklyn Bridge Park. In the last section in the collection, "In and About the Parks," Rogers's understanding of culture, architecture, urban planning history, and landscape architecture come together in five insightful essays. Subjects range from Green-Wood Cemetery and Prospect Park in Brooklyn to "Thirty-three New Ways You Can Help Central Park's Renaissance," published in New York Magazine in 1983. The concluding essay, "Jane and Me," offers new perspectives on the urban theorist and activist Jane Jacobs, whose writings catalyzed Rogers's own interest in urban planning in the 1960s."-- Amazon.com

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Below and Above the Ground

Bedrock, Sand, and Water: The Geological Landscape of New York City

New York: A Once and Future Arcadia

The Hudson River: Then and Now

"An American Kew": The Transformation of Bronx Park into the New York Botanical Garden

Representing Nature: The Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History

pt. II Along the Shoreline

On Phillip Lopate's Waterfront: A Journey around Manhattan

Beneath the Great Bridge: A Park Grows in Brooklyn

On New York's Aged Waterfront, a Pinch of Salt

pt. III In and About the Parks

Green-Wood Cemetery: Scenic Repose among the Shades

Designing Prospect Park

Robert Moses and the Transformation of Central Park

Thirty-three New Ways You Can Help Central Park's Renaissance

Jane and Me.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781952620362

1952620368

OCLC:

1260192945

Publisher Number:

99991220351