Before Central Park

by Sara Cedar Miller

Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes

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. But before it became Central Park, the land was the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181949
• ISBN13: 9780231181945
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"