Before Central Park /

Before Central Park / / Sara Cedar Miller.

With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. Bu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Miller, Sara Cedar,
MitwirkendeR:
Smith, Elizabeth W.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 170 color figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I: TOPOGRAPHY
  • Introduction
  • 1 The First Settlers, 1625–1664
  • 2 Along the Kingsbridge Road, 1683–1845
  • 3 The Enslaved Bensons, 1754–1846
  • 4 The War at McGowan’s Pass, 1776–1784
  • 5 Valentine Nutter, 1760–1814
  • 6 The War of 1812, 1805–1814
  • PART II: REAL ESTATE
  • Introduction
  • 7 Dividing Bloomingdale, 1667–1790s
  • 8 Dividing Bloomingdale, 1790–1824
  • 9 Dividing Bloomingdale, Seneca Village: The Residents, 1825–1857
  • 10 Dividing Bloomingdale, Seneca Village: The Black Leaders, 1825–1857
  • 11 Dividing Harlem, 1825–1843
  • 12 Dividing Yorkville, 1785–1835
  • 13 The Receiving Reservoir, 1835–1842
  • 14 A Changing Land, 1845–1853
  • PART III: THE IDEA OF A PARK
  • Introduction
  • 15 The Battle of the Parks, 1844–1852
  • 16 Becoming Central Park, 1853–1856
  • 17 The First Commission, 1855–1857
  • 18 Designing Central Park, 1857–1858
  • 19 Extending the Park, 1859–1863
  • Epilogue: America’s Park
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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