The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot : Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It /

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Audubon Park's journey from farmland to cityscape. The study of Audubon Park's origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audub...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Spady, Matthew (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Historic districts > New York (State) > New York.
Audubon Park Historic District (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : humanizing the landscape
  • Triumph and tribulation on white street
  • The land before it was Minnie's
  • Arcadia found ...
  • ... And too quickly lost
  • Audubon Park begins to bloom
  • Fruit basket turnover
  • Audubon Park's new power brokers
  • The hemlocks
  • Three widows, three households
  • Reconstructing the park
  • A gilded lily
  • Panic
  • Halcyon days
  • Waning days of summer
  • Exit strategy
  • Partition suit
  • Clinging to the past ...
  • ... And facing the future
  • Rapid transit, rapid transformation
  • When the bloom faded.

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