Green Metropolis - The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, Histor...

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Descirption: The woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in 1980 surveys in depth seven green landscapes in New York City, their history--both natural and human--and how they have been transformed over time.

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers describes seven landscapes: greenbelt and nature refuge that runs along the spine of Staten Island on land once intended for a highway;Jamaica Bay,near JFK Airport, whose mosaic of fragile, endangered marshes has been preserved as a bird sanctuary; Inwood Hill, in upper Manhattan, whose forest once sheltered Native Americans and Revolutionary soldiers before it became a site for wealthy estates and subsequently a public park; the Central Park Ramble, a carefully designed artificial wilderness in the middle of the city; Roosevelt Island,formerly Welfare Island, in the East River, where urban planners built a traffic-free "new town in town" in the 1970s and whose southern tip now boasts the Louis Kahn-designed memorial to FDR;...

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