Title: Green metropolis
Description: "The woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in 1980 surveys in depth seven green landscapes in New York City, their history--both natural and human--and how they have been transformed over time. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers describes seven landscapes: greenbelt and nature refuge that runs along the spine of Staten Island on land once intended for a highway; Jamaica Bay, near JFK Airport, whose mosaic of fragile, endangered marshes has been preserved as a bird sanctuary; Inwood Hill, in upper Manhattan, whose forest once sheltered Native Americans and Revolutionary soldiers before it became a site for wealthy estates and subsequently a public park; the Central Park Ramble, a carefully designed artificial wilderness in the middle of the city; Roosevelt Island, formerly Welfare Island, in the East River, where urban planners built a traffic-free 'new town in town' in the 1970s and whose southern tip now boasts the Louis Kahn-designed memorial to FDR; Fresh Kills, the James Corner Field Operations-designed 2,200-acre park on Staten Island that is being created out of what was once the world's largest landfill; The High Line, in Manhattan's Chelsea and West Village neighborhoods, an aerial promenade built on an abandoned elevated rail spur"--
Subjects: NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Urban ecology (Sociology), Natural areas, Urban ecology (Biology), Parks, Environmental conditions, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes, Natural history, City planning, Human ecology, Landscapes, History, HISTORY, State & Local, Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), NATURE, Environmental Conservation & Protection, ART, Subjects & Themes, Environmental aspects, Ecology
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York