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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| I | Creating Central Park | |
| 1 | The Gentleman from Europe and the Idea of a Great Park | 15 |
| 2 | "Give Us a Park...Central or Sidelong...A Real Park, A Large Park" | 37 |
| 3 | Private to Public Property | 59 |
| II | Designing and Building Central Park | |
| 4 | The Design Competition | 95 |
| 5 | The Greensward Plan and Its Creators | 121 |
| 6 | Building for "the Public and Posterity" | 150 |
| 7 | Andrew Green and the Model Park | 180 |
| III | The Elite Park | |
| 8 | "The Great Rendezvous of the Polite World" | 211 |
| 9 | "A Park Properly So-Called" | 238 |
| IV | Redefining Central Park | |
| 10 | The "Spoils of the Park" | 263 |
| 11 | Reshaping Park Politics | 284 |
| 12 | The "Many Sided, Fluent, Thoroughly American" Park | 307 |
| 13 | A Public Menagerie and Two Private Museums | 340 |
| V | The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City | |
| 14 | The Fragmented Park | 373 |
| 15 | Will They Ever Drain the Reservoir? Modernizing the Park | 412 |
| 16 | Robert Moses and a New Deal | 439 |
| VI | The Past Fifty Years | |
| 17 | Scenes from a Park, 1941-1980 | 469 |
| 18 | "Whose Park Is It Anyway?" | 505 |
| Note on Citations | 531 | |
| Abbreviations Used in Notes | 533 | |
| Notes | 537 | |
| Illustration Credits | 611 | |
| Index | 613 |
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Debbie Tkachyk
reviewed The Park and the People : A History of Central Park on December 01, 2015
The Park and the People : A History of Central Park
This history of NYC's iconic public park reframes its history as one of a battle for space by classes. From its very founding, which cleared out black and irish communities to make room for a place for the city's elites to compete with European elites in beauty, as well as push for a social setting for elites to mingle and the idea that all residents of the city would benefit by access to seeing a natural environment. The poor immigrant and black residents of the city were systematically excluded from both participation in the park, through informal policies such as carriage access and formal running of the park by the better classes, to explitly banning of large public gatherings or popular recreational activity such as picnics or sports by the poor. It builds upon Rosensweig's work around how struggles for access to recreation is just as important as workplace struggles, and how space is harnessed for elites if not unchallenged.
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Add The Park and the People : A History of Central Park, 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 immig, The Park and the People : A History of Central Park to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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