City Parks
eBook - ePub

City Parks

Public Spaces, Private Thoughts

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

City Parks

Public Spaces, Private Thoughts

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 Tóibín, 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

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Al-Azhar, Cairo
  5. Boboli, Florence; Villa Borghese, Rome
  6. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
  7. Giardino Pubblico, Trieste
  8. Gorky Park, Moscow; Tsarskoe Selo and Kirov Park, St. Petersburg
  9. Griffith Park, Los Angeles
  10. Grosse Tiergarten, Berlin
  11. High Line, New York
  12. Hyde Park, London
  13. Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
  14. Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
  15. Lincoln Park and Grant Park, Chicago
  16. The Maidan, Calcutta
  17. Maruyama Koen, Kyoto
  18. Park Güell, Barcelona
  19. Parque Ecológico de Xochimilco, Mexico City
  20. The Presidio, San Francisco
  21. Prospect Park, Brooklyn
  22. Photographer’s Notes
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Contributors
  25. About the Creators
  26. Copyright
  27. About the Publisher