Unit4-LionsandTigersandBearsLions and Tigers and BearsBill BufordWTBENEXTBACK
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Unit 4-Lions and Tigers and BearsContentsPart I Background InformationPartIITextAppreciationPartIII ReinforcementWTEBNEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – Lions and Tigers and Bears Part I Background Information Part II Text Appreciation Part III Reinforcement Contents
Unit 4-Lionsand Tigers and BearsBackgroundhnformationPartOneI.Founding Commissionersof CentralParkII.Central ParkLocationon Manhattan MapIII.VisitorAttractionsin CentralParkmentionedinthetextTEWBLENTERNEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – Lions and Tigers and Bears ENTER Part One I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park II. Central Park Location on Manhattan Map III. Visitor Attractions in Central Park mentioned in the text
Unit 4-Lions andTigers and BearsI.Founding Commissionersof CentralParkVauxarcWhenowFrederickLawOlmstedCalvert VauxTo be continued onthe nextpageWBTENEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – Lions and Tigers and Bears I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted Calvert Vaux To be continued on the next page
Unit4-LionsandTigersandBearsI.FoundingCommissionersof CentralParkThe founding commissioners: the city officialswho were appointed to establish Central Park.Commissioners are officials in government, esp.those in charge of departments. The foundingcommissioners of Central Park were the landscapearchitectsFrederickLawOlmstedand Calvert VauxThe two designed and oversaw the first-phaseconstruction of the Park which began in 1858andendedin1878.WTETobecontinuedonthenextpageBLNEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – 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
Unit4-LionsandTigersandBearsI.FoundingCommissionersof CentralParkRobertMoses(1888-1981)wasaNewYorkstate and municipal official whose ambitious publicworksprojectsof the 1930s,1940s and1950stransformed the urban landscape of New York City.He expanded the State's park system and builtnumerous parkwaysand hundreds of newplaygrounds and parks and important highways,bridges and tunnels linking the boroughs of NewYork City.WTETobecontinuedonthenextpageBLNEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – 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
Unit4-LionsandTigersandBearsI.FoundingCommissionersofCentralParkMoses preferred recreational facilities to the ruralscenery stressed by the English Romanticists,andan ordered and symmetrical design in FrenchRenaissance style,evident in the southern CentralPark.Therefore,under Moses,Central Park gained19 playgrounds,12 ball-fields,handball courts,andtheWoll-manRink.WTEBLNEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – 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
Unit4-LionsandTigersandBearsII.Central ParkLocationon Manhattan MapHariemRandallIslandFifthAvenuetoEighthWard'Avenue(easttowest)CENTRALIslandUpperestSideUpoetENNewYork's greenPARK品Side茶rectangleHaSO59thStreetto110thStreetEast(southtonorth)GreenwichlageSQvillageTREESoHoTWBELNEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – Lions and Tigers and Bears II. Central Park Location on Manhattan Map New York’s green rectangle 59th Street to 110th Street (south to north) Fifth Avenue to Eighth Avenue (east to west)
Unit4-LionsandTigersandBearsII.VisitorAttractionsin CentralParkthe urbanwonders of theworld, a greenoasis in thegreatconcrete,high-riselandscape ofNew York CityTo be continuedonthenextpageWBTENEXTBACK
W B T L E Unit 4 – Lions and Tigers and Bears the urban wonders of the world, a green oasis in the great concrete, high-rise landscape of New York City III. Visitor Attractions in Central Park To be continued on the next page
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