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The Park and the People

A History of Central Park

By: Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar

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Paperback | 15 October 1998

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640 Pages

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This "exemplary social history" (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park's people-the merchants and landowners who launched the project; the immigrant and African-American residents who were displaced by the park; the politicians, gentlemen, and artists who disputed its design and operation; the German gardeners, Irish laborers, and Yankee engineers who built it; and the generations of New Yorkers for whom Central Park was their only backyard. In tracing the park's history, Blackmar and Rosenzweig give us the history of New York, and bring to life larger issues about the meaning of the word "public" in a democratic society.

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"Original and provocative... A deeply felt celebration of the role of public space."-Robert Fishman, New York Times Book Review "Ambitious and adventurous... A surprising and deeply social account of the park's contentious past. A powerful historical resource for thinking about the shape American public spaces have taken."-Susan G. Davis, The Nation "Prodigiously researched, eloquent. An outstanding study of the evolution of Manhattan's Central Park."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Creating Central Park
The Gentleman from Europe and the Idea of a Great Park	p. 15
"Give Us a Park...Central or Sidelong...A Real Park, A Large Park"	p. 37
Private to Public Property	p. 59
Designing and Building Central Park
The Design Competition	p. 95
The Greensward Plan and Its Creators	p. 121
Building for "the Public and Posterity"	p. 150
Andrew Green and the Model Park	p. 180
The Elite Park
"The Great Rendezvous of the Polite World"	p. 211
"A Park Properly So-Called"	p. 238
Redefining Central Park
The "Spoils of the Park"	p. 263
Reshaping Park Politics	p. 284
The "Many Sided, Fluent, Thoroughly American" Park	p. 307
A Public Menagerie and Two Private Museums	p. 340
The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City
The Fragmented Park	p. 373
Will They Ever Drain the Reservoir? Modernizing the Park	p. 412
Robert Moses and a New Deal	p. 439
The Past Fifty Years
Scenes from a Park, 1941-1980	p. 469
"Whose Park Is It Anyway?"	p. 505
Note on Citations	p. 531
Abbreviations Used in Notes	p. 533
Notes	p. 537
Illustration Credits	p. 611
Index	p. 613
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