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Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears ackground Information Contents 工 Founding Commissioners of Central Park II. Central Park Location on Manhattan Map III. Central Park History IV. Central Park W BTL E BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park II. Central Park Location on Manhattan Map III. Central Park History IV. Central Park Background Information
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W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted Calvert Vaux To be continued on the next page
Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears . Founding Commissioners of Centralpare The founding commissioners: the city officials who were appointed to establish Central Park Commissioners are officials in government, esp those in charge of departments. The founding commissioners of Central Park were the landscape architects frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux The two designed and oversaw the first-phase construction of the Park which began in 1858 and ended in 1878 W BTL E To be continued on the next page BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears • The founding commissioners: the city officials who were appointed to establish Central Park. Commissioners are officials in government, esp. those in charge of departments. The founding commissioners of Central Park were the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The two designed and oversaw the first-phase construction of the Park which began in 1858 and ended in 1878. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park To be continued on the next page
Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears . Founding Commissioners of Centralpark Robert Moses(1888-1981) was a New York state and municipal official whose ambitious public works projects of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s transformed the urban landscape of New york city He expanded the State's park system and built numerous parkways and hundreds of new playgrounds and parks and important highways, bridges and tunnels linking the boroughs of New York oⅰt W BTL E To be continued on the next page BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears Robert Moses (1888—1981) was a New York state and municipal official whose ambitious public works projects of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s transformed the urban landscape of New York City. He expanded the State’s park system and built numerous parkways and hundreds of new playgrounds and parks and important highways, bridges and tunnels linking the boroughs of New York City. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park To be continued on the next page
Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears . Founding Commissioners of Centralpare Moses preferred recreational facilities to the rural scenery stressed by the English Romanticists, and an ordered and symmetrical design in French Renaissance style, evident in the southern Central Park. Therefore, under Moses, Central Park gained 19 playgrounds, 12 ball-fields, handball courts, and the woll-man Rink W BTL E BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears Moses preferred recreational facilities to the rural scenery stressed by the English Romanticists, and an ordered and symmetrical design in French Renaissance style, evident in the southern Central Park. Therefore, under Moses, Central Park gained 19 playgrounds, 12 ball-fields, handball courts, and the Woll-man Rink. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park
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W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears II. Central Park Location on Manhattan Map New York’s green rectangle Central Park
Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears III. Central Park iston There are three elements in the architecture of Central park English Romanticism is characterized by the picturesque ideal to blend with the natural environment\ wn Central Park's founding commissioners olmsted and Calvert Vaux were influenced by this tradition. Their ideal was to allow new yorkers to experience a day in the pastoral country without leaving the island city Another style is classicism characterized by formal symmetry and the use of straight lines, evident in the south end of the park W BTL E To be continued on the next page BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears There are three elements in the architecture of Central Park. • English Romanticism is characterized by the picturesque ideal to blend with the natural environment. Central Park’s founding commissioners Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were influenced by this tradition. Their ideal was to allow New Yorkers to experience a day in the pastoral country without leaving the island city. • Another style is Classicism characterized by formal symmetry and the use of straight lines, evident in the south end of the Park. III. Central Park History To be continued on the next page
Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears III. Central Park iston The Park was pressed for primarily by wealthy merchants and landowners In the first decade after its completion it was clearly the playground of the wealthy. It was located too far uptown to be within walking distance for the citys working class population W BTL E To be continued on the next page BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears The Park was pressed for primarily by wealthy merchants and landowners. In the first decade after its completion, it was clearly the playground of the wealthy. It was located too far uptown to be within walking distance for the city’s working class population. III. Central Park History To be continued on the next page
Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears III. Central Park iston Until the late 19th century, workers comprised but a fraction of the visitors to the Park when they launched a successful campaign to have concerts held on Sundays. Saturday afternoon concerts were for middle-class audiences, for the six-day working week precluded attendance by the working class. W BTL E To be continued on the next page BACK NEXT
W B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears • Until the late 19th century, workers comprised but a fraction of the visitors to the Park when they launched a successful campaign to have concerts held on Sundays. • Saturday afternoon concerts were for middle-class audiences, for the six-day working week precluded attendance by the working class. III. Central Park History To be continued on the next page
