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The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the
City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the
great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve
it. These include, most importantly, the creation of the Central
Park Conservancy, the organization that transformed Central Park
from one of the city's most degraded amenities into its most
valuable. Many of Rogers's essays relate to this remarkable
achievement, and the insight and administrative acumen that
propelled it.The first section of Writing the City, "Below and
Above the Ground," explores New York's physical make up, especially
its geology, as well as the origins of another of New York's
world-class landscapes, the New York Botanical Garden. "Along the
Shoreline" features an insightful review of Phillip Lopate's
Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan and two other essays about
the city's edges, one of which focuses on Brooklyn Bridge Park.In
the last section in the collection, "In and About the Parks,"
Rogers's understanding of culture, architecture, urban planning
history, and landscape architecture come together in five
insightful essays. Subjects range from Green-Wood Cemetery and
Prospect Park in Brooklyn to "Thirty-three New Ways You Can Help
Central Park's Renaissance," published in New York Magazine in
1983. The concluding essay, "Jane and Me," offers new perspectives
on the urban theorist and activist Jane Jacobs, whose writings
catalyzed Rogers's own interest in urban planning in the 1960s.
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Garden At Monceau (Hardcover)
Carmontelle; Edited by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Joseph Disponzio; Translated by Andrew Ayers; Introduction by Laurence Chatel de Brancion; Contributions by …
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R1,820
Discovery Miles 18 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Carmontelle's landmark publication, Garden at Monceau, beautifully
reproduced to show the Parisian garden's artistic and cultural
importance before the French Revolution. Originally published in
1779, Garden at Monceau is a richly illustrated presentation of the
garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of
the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orleans, duc de
Chartres. With its array of architectural follies intended to
surprise and amaze the visitor, the garden was a setting for ancien
regime social life. Carmontelle's portrayal of his work in Garden
at Monceau therefore serves as an expression of a key moment in the
history of European landscape design, garden architecture, and
social history. This facsimile edition, with its English-language
text and reproductions of the original engravings, is accompanied
by essays that interpret the landscape design and examine
Carmontelle's larger career as a painter and theater producer.
Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the subject and muse of this provocative
case study of "place", exploring the history and geography but most
centrally walking the town and landscape and meeting the people
whose lives tell of the rich complexity of the location. To start
with topography, Las Vegas translates as "The Meadows". The name
refers to the series of spacious grasslands fanning out from the
slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Range where the mountains form the
western terminus of the Great Plains. This fine location allowed
Las Vegas, situated as it was on the Santa Fe Trail and with the
arrival of the railroad, to become New Mexico's handsomest, most
prosperous town. Throughout the opulent years from 1821 through the
first decades of the twentieth century, merchants and businessmen
amassed considerable wealth in grain and lumber from Mora and San
Miguel counties, along with wool, hides, and metals from the Pecos
and Mesilla valleys. The region's decline was spelled out by the
rerouting of the railway along with changes in manufacturing.
Today's Las Vegas is a proud but fading shadow of its former self,
captured in human terms, in families and memories, and still in the
dreams of its people. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, an accomplished
cultural historian and photographer, includes portraits of some
sixty residents interviewed extensively for the project and dozens
of photographs detailing the town's architecture, public spaces,
and natural features. To comprehend the layout of Las Vegas and
study its architecture, Rogers walked its streets, exploring the
outlying villages and ranches with traces of the Santa Fe Trail at
Fort Union and elsewhere. To visualize its past, she delved deeply
in archives and histories. To feel the pulse of the present, Rogers
interviewed Las Vegans representing different cultural backgrounds,
ages, and walks of life and immersed herself in local events and
social gatherings. The result is an authentic portrait of a unique
cultural place.
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