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Pleasure drives and promenades : the history of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn parkways
- Title
- Pleasure drives and promenades : the history of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn parkways / Elizabeth MacDonald.
- Author
- Macdonald, Elizabeth, 1959-
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IRM (Brooklyn) 13-4734 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 281 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- History of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn parkways
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-261) and index.
- Contents
- Part one: The parkway vision. Ch. 1: The parkway plan and its inspiration -- Ch. 2: Building Eastern and Ocean Parkways -- Part two: Contested yet enduring public spaces. Ch. 3: Whose parkways? -- Ch. 4: Redefining and reshaping parkways -- Ch. 5: Holding on in Brooklyn -- Part three: Suburban vision to urban reality. Ch. 6: The Eastern Parkway neighborhood -- Ch. 7: Ocean Parkway's neighborhoods.
- Call Number
- IRM (Brooklyn) 13-4734
- ISBN
- 9781935195375 (pbk.)
- 1935195379 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 816169419
- Author
- Macdonald, Elizabeth, 1959-
- Title
- Pleasure drives and promenades : the history of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn parkways / Elizabeth MacDonald.
- Imprint
- Chicago, Ill. : Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-261) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IRM (Brooklyn) 13-4734