Writing the City: Essays on New York

by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952620368
• ISBN13: 9781952620362
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Library of American Landscape History
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"