Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (née Browning, born 1936) is an American environmentalist, parks advocate, Historic preservation landscape preservationist, and author of numerous books and essays. She was Central Park Administrator from 1979 to 1995 and the president of the Central Park Convervancy from 1980 to 1995. She received in 2005 the LaGasse Medal and in 2010 the Jane Jacobs Medal. Quotes The Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet Price-William Gilpin (priest) Gilpin manner of looking at nature according to the principles of painterly composition is symbolized by a device known as a Claude glass. Reputedly invented as an aid by the painter Claude Lorrain, it was a convex, dark-toned glass that reflected landscapes in miniature, with "OLd Master old master" tints and merging detail. It was popular with Landscape painting landscape painters and gentlemen travelers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century and was still used in the first half of the nineteenth century. Frederick Law Olmsted's New York Frederick A. Praeger (publisher) Frederick A. Praeger 1972 9780275495206 https://books.google.com/books/about/Frederick_Law_Olmsted_s_New_York.html?id=530MAAAAYAAJ&q=lorrain 12 (173 pages) Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir (2018) My personal emotional response to Central Park, like that of so many others, is sensory—stretching out on a large sun-warmed rock outcrop, watching Frisbee players and picnickers on the Great Lawn and Turtle Park Great Lawn, seeing a great production of The Tempest in the Delacorte Theater in the gloaming of a summer evening, a flash of red from the plumage of a ruby-crowned kinglet on a spring day in The Ramble and Lake the Ramble, walking barefoot on the grass of the Sheep Meadow, the memory of Ice skating skating on the frozen The Ramble and Lake Lake on New Year's Day 1981, listening to the moody sound from a saxophone being played beneath the one of the park's reverberating stone arches ... I could go on. Introduction: Implausible Ideal Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2018 9781524733551 https://books.google.com/books?id=z9JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR17 ix–xvii (336 pages; quote from p. xvii) During the summer of 1966 and in subsequent years, Wollman Rink operated as the venue for rock 'n' roll, jazz, Folk music folk, pop, and World music ethnic music concerts sponsored by Rheingold Brewery Rheingold Breweries. Overlooking the objections of his recently appointed Central Park curator, Henry Hope Reed Jr. Henry Hope Reed, Thomas Hoving Hoving played on the public's justifiable fear that the park had become unsafe at night: "It's my responsibility to make it so exciting that people will come there in droves, and that also is protection." He did not foresee the event to which his "attractions to draw teenagers" would stimulate the consumption of alcohol and the sale of drugs in the park, nor the effect this would have on the park's landscape and future safety. p. 7 Frederick Law Olmsted Olmsted faced the challenge of converting what was still a ragged 843-acre wasteland into a pleasure ground that is a masterpiece of landscape design and paragon of social beneficence, while my task was not to build such an extraordinary civic amenity but to develop a plan and find the means to rescue this underappreciated, wholly original tour de force from further destruction—a less remarkable but nevertheless important feat. p. 27 Quotes about Elizabeth Barlow Rogers In this magnum opus, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the founding president of the Central Park Conservancy and a longtime administrator of that celebrated oasis, stakes out and cultivates a breathtakingly vast terrain: the history of man-made landscape from Neolithic Neolithic times to the present. Though Rogers focuses on a number of well-known gardens and parks — from Hadrian's Villa of A.D. 118-38 outside Rome to Antonio Gaudí's Park Güell of 1900-14 in Barcelona — her subject is less horticulture than the social interaction of various cultures with their natural settings. Encompassing Urban planning city planning as much as garden design, this panoramic study is impressive not only for its encyclopedic scope but also for the author's authoritative command of so much diverse material and for her lucid writing. Martin Filler, review of Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/architecture.html December 2, 2001 p. 40, Section 7 External links About Elizabeth Barlow Rogers elizabethbarlowrogers.com https://www.elizabethbarlowrogers.com/about/ Elizabeth Barlow Rogers papers New York Historical, NYU Special Collections https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/nyhs/ms3206_elizabeth_barlow_rogers/ Category:1936 births Category:Living people Category:Architects from the United States Category:Designers from the United States Category:Environmentalists from the United States Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1930s Category:Yale University alumni Category:People from San Antonio