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Saving Central Park audiobook
- By: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
- Narrator: Erin Bennett
- Category: Architecture, Landscape
- Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Saving Central Park Audiobook Summary
The story of how one woman’s long love affair with New York’s Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life–a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a master’s degree in city planning at Yale. And then her move to New York, where she starts a family and, when she finds being a mother and a housewife is not enough, pours herself into the protection and enhancement of the city’s green spaces. Interwoven into her own story is a comprehensive history of Central Park: its design and construction as a scenic masterpiece; the alterations of each succeeding era; the addition of numerous facilities for sports and play; and finally, the “anything goes” phase of the 1960s and 70s, which was often fun but nearly destroyed the park. The two narratives continue to entwine as she finds a job in the administration of Central Park, founds the Central Park Conservancy, and transforms both the park and herself–a transformation that has led to the writing of her many books, to travels that have taken her to parks and gardens around the world, and to solidifying the prestige of one of New York’s most conspicuous landmarks.
Cover photograph: copyright © Annie Leibovitz / Vanity Fair /Trunk Archive
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Saving Central Park Full Details
| Narrator | Erin Bennett |
| Length | 9 hours 31 minutes |
| Author | Elizabeth Barlow Rogers |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525588948 |
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The publisher of the Saving Central Park is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: conservation, of, book, nyc, for, landscape, leadership, central, hardcover, park, design, books, successful, parks, gifts, mother, recreation, women, personal, leaders, fundraising, divorce, working, architecture, law, olmsted, frederick, mom, nature, and, environmentalist, biography, american history, biographies, us history, architecture books, american history books, coffee table books, biographies of famous people, autobiographies, biographies and memoirs, architect, gifts for history buffs, historical books, history books, memoir, Architecture, Landscape, History, United States, State & Local, Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs The BISAC Subject Code is Architecture, Landscape
Additional info
The publisher of the Saving Central Park is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525588948.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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