Park and the People A History of Central Park
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Biographical note
The late Roy Rosenzweig, Professor of History at George Mason University was the author of Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. Elizabeth Blackmar, Professor of History at Columbia University, is the author of Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850, also from Cornell.
<p>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.</p>
- Susan G. Davis, The Nation
<p>Original and provocative.... A deeply felt celebration of the role of public space.</p>
- Robert Fishman, New York Times Book Review
<p>Prodigiously researched, eloquent. An outstanding study of the evolution of Manhattan's Central Park.</p>
Publishers Weekly
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
The late Roy Rosenzweig, Professor of History at George Mason University was the author of Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. Elizabeth Blackmar, Professor of History at Columbia University, is the author of Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850, also from Cornell.