City parks
Subtitle: public places, private thoughts
By: created and edited by Catie Marron ; photographs by Oberto Gili
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780062231796
Subjects: Urban parks; Pictorial works
Description: Eighteen writers reflect on various parks that hold a special significance for them, sharing personal moments they associate with them.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Catie Marron; title: Al-Azhar, Cairo  -- Ahdaf Soueif; title: Boboli, Florence; Villa Borghese, Rome  -- Zadie Smith; title: Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.  -- President Bill Clinton; title: Giardino Pubblico, Trieste  -- Jan Morris; title: Gorky Park, Moscow; Tsarskoe Selo & Kirov Park, Saint Petersburg  -- Ian Frazier; title: Griffith Park, Los Angeles  -- Candice Bergen; title: Goose Tiergarten, Berlin  -- Norman Foster; title: High Line, New York  -- André Aciman; title: Hyde Park, London  -- Amanda Foreman; title: Iveagh Gardens, Dublin  -- John Banville; title: Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris  -- Amanda Harlech; title: Lincoln Park & Grant Park, Chicago  -- Jonathan Alter; title: The Maidan, Calcutta  -- Simon  Winchester; title: Maruyama Koen, Kyoto  -- Pico Iyer; title: Park Güell, Barcelona  -- Colm Tóibín; title: Parque Ecológico de Xochimilco, Mexico City  -- David Lida; title: The Presidio, San Francisco  -- Andrew Sean Greer; title: Prospect Park, Brooklyn  -- Nicole Krauss; title: Photographer's Notes -- Oberto Gili.