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Pleasure Drives and Promenades: The History of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn Parkways
Pleasure Drives and Promenades The History of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn Parkways
Author: Elizabeth MacDonald
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?s local council implemented a plan to connect Prospect Park and New York City?s recently built Central Park and to link additional planned public open spaces and parks ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781935195375
ISBN-10: 1935195379
Publication Date: 10/15/2012
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Center for American Places
Book Type: Paperback
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