Few cities in the world have such an array of iconic city sites as does New York. This
assignment invites you to tell the story of one particular building, structure or place in New
York. I want to dive into Central Park and how it changed from an elite park to a democratic park . In the body of the paper talk about how central park changed over time in chronological order , the time frame should be from 1857 to the 1950's. You have to examine how central park changed over time from its opening in the 1850's till the 1950's. What I mean by that is who was the park designed for , why was it designed , who in its first years visited it , what social class , group and who did not go and how did that change over time.
Please keep in mind that you need a minimum of eight scholarly sources including at
least two articles from scholarly journals and two book-length academic studies. Only
one of your sources may be a website. All sources should be tightly focused on the topic
of your choice. Additional sources can then help situate your ‘place in time’ firmly into
the historical context. For instance, if you decide to write a research paper on Central
park, you will need to identify at least four scholarly sources on central park. The
remaining sources could then focus on the epic age of mass migration to the United
States and, specifically so, New York City.
Here are some useful bibliographies:
1- Coffee, Kevin. “The Material Significance of Carriage Drives to the Design of Central Park,” Industrial Archeology 38, 1 (2012); 75-92.
2- Olmsted, F.L. Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
3- Hecksher, Morrison H. “Creating Central Park,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65, 3 (Winter 2008): 6-74.
4-Schenker, Heath M. “Central Park and the Melodramatic Imagination.” Journal of Urban History, 29, 4 (2003): 375-393.
5- Stone, Christopher. “Vandalism: Property, Gentility, and the Rhetoric of Crime in New York City, 1890-1920,” Radical History Review 26 (Fall 1982): 12-34
6- Zetzel, Susanna. “The Garden in the Machine: The Construction of Nature in Olmsted’s Central Park.” Prospects, 14 (1989): 291-339.
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