Great points Freda. I probably won’t have time to go into it in class too much, but the great urban parks of New York City (e.g. Central Park) were explicitly intentionally designed in order to “blur” the edges, as you put it, in the seething immigrant metropolis in the late 19th century. Frederick Law Olmstead, the park’s designer, observed that…[Read more]
In reply to - fredabader wrote a new post, Preserve the Parks; the Parks Preserve Us, on the site The Peopling of NYC While children are not the focus point of Berger’s nor of Ellick’s article, I think their brief mention may […]↧
