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Prospect Park : Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn masterpiece
- Title
- Prospect Park : Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn masterpiece / David P. Colley ; photography by Elizabeth Keegin Colley ; in collaboration with The Prospect Park Alliance.
- Author
- Colley, David
- Publication
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2013]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Colley, Elizabeth Keegin
- Description
- 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- Summary
- Right in the heart of one of America's most densely populated urban areas, in Brooklyn, New York, sits an exquisite public space, Prospect Park, encompassing 585 acres of meadows, woods and lakes. Created some 150 years ago, the park still maintains the qualities achieved by its acclaimed designers; Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert B. Vaux, who also built New York's Central Park. Despite Central Park's acclaim they considered Prospect Park their masterpiece, designing it to be a place of great beauty, a rural refuge with a sense of nature and wilderness and filled with healthful clean air. Today the park's new Lakeside Centre Facility, designed by the award-winning architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and scheduled to open in January 2013, continues the goals of the park's original creators.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- F128.65.P76
- ISBN
- 9781616891183 (hardback)
- 1616891181 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012034280
- OCLC
- 806015322
- Author
- Colley, David, author.
- Title
- Prospect Park : Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn masterpiece / David P. Colley ; photography by Elizabeth Keegin Colley ; in collaboration with The Prospect Park Alliance.
- Publisher
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Colley, Elizabeth Keegin, photographer.
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG F128.65.P76 C65 2013