
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Catie Marron's City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world's most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm TóibÃn, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them.
Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; André Aciman muses on time's fleeting nature and the changing face of New York viewed from the High Line; Pico Iyer explores hidden places and privacy in Kyoto; Jonathan Alter takes readers from the 1968 race riots to Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park; Simon Winchester invites us along on his adventures in the Maidan; and Bill Clinton writes of his affection for Dumbarton Oaks.
Oberto Gili's color and black-and-white photographs unify the writers' unique and personal voices. Taken around the world over the course of a year, in every season, his pictures capture the inherent mood of each place. Fusing images and text, City Parks is an extraordinary and unique project: through personal reflection and intimate detail it taps into collective memory and our sense of time's passage.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Al-Azhar, Cairo
- Boboli, Florence; Villa Borghese, Rome
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
- Giardino Pubblico, Trieste
- Gorky Park, Moscow; Tsarskoe Selo and Kirov Park, St. Petersburg
- Griffith Park, Los Angeles
- Grosse Tiergarten, Berlin
- High Line, New York
- Hyde Park, London
- Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
- Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
- Lincoln Park and Grant Park, Chicago
- The Maidan, Calcutta
- Maruyama Koen, Kyoto
- Park Güell, Barcelona
- Parque Ecológico de Xochimilco, Mexico City
- The Presidio, San Francisco
- Prospect Park, Brooklyn
- Photographer’s Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- About the Creators
- Copyright
- About the Publisher