Main entry:

Macdonald, Elizabeth, 1959-

Title & Author:

Pleasure drives and promenades : the history of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn parkways / Elizabeth MacDonald.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2012.

Description:

xi, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-261) and index.
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.

Summary:

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, the local government of rapidly growing Brooklyn built Prospect Park, a large public park on its outskirts. During the same period, Brooklyn{u2019}s local council implemented a plan to connect Prospect Park and New York City{u2019}s recently built Central Park and to link additional planned public open spaces and parks with a new type of wide, tree-lined street called a parkway. The parkway would serve as a spine for the development of bucolic suburbs, whose residents could then travel to the parks on streets that shared a park-like feel and promoted gregarious social activities, such as promenading. These planned developments anticipated New York City{u2019}s annexing of Brooklyn in 1896. Brooklyn{u2019}s Parkway Plan of pleasure drives and promenades was the collaborative undertaking of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Prospect and Central parks with partner Calvert Vaux, and forward-looking park commissioner, James S. T. Stranahan. Featuring contemporary architectural drawings and period illustrations, Pleasure Drives and Promenades charts the inception and early implementation of their plan as well as its lasting influence on the urban landscape.

ISBN:

9781935195375 (pbk.)
1935195379 (pbk.)

Subject:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Parkways New York (State) New York History.
City planning New York (State) New York History 19th century.
Routes touristiques New York (État) New York Histoire.
Buildings.
City planning.
Parkways.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Brooklyn.
Parkways United States New York (State) New York.
Urban planning United States New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

History of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn parkways

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282476
Call No.: BIB 220067
Status: Available