A Green Place to Be

By Ashley Benham Yazdani,

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In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to be - a park with ponds to row on and paths for wandering through trees and over bridges. When aā€¦

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Someone once referred to Central Park as the ā€œlungsā€ of New York City. When the grid plan for the streets of Manhattan was designed it left little room for greenspace. Human beings need nature, and respite from the crowds, so a contest was held to design a park. Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted came up with the winning idea. This lushly illustrated book tells the story of how their Greensward Plan became Central Parkā€” the first landscaped public park in the United States. I love to think about how the two designed the placement of every tree, bridge, andā€¦

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