 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 284 pagine
...to the inhabitants of New York: — " The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity, your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere...are yet unoccupied lands on the island which might, T suppose, be procured for the purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surface, might... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 290 pagine
...to the inhabitants of New York :— " The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity, your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere...are yet unoccupied lands on the island which might, T suppose, be procured for the purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surface, might... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 328 pagine
...hot and crowded streets, make it a cause of regret, that, in laying out New York, no preparation waa made, while it was yet practicable, for a range of...are yet unoccupied lands on the island which might, T suppose, be procured for the purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surface, might... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1928 - 660 pagine
...suggested a "central" reservation in New York: The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity ; your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere...purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surfaces, might be laid out into surpassingly beautiful pleasure-grounds; but while we are discussing... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted, Theodora Kimball Hubbard - 1928 - 654 pagine
...streets of the city. The Evening Post was for taking both Jones' Wood and a central site, — "the range of parks and public gardens along the central part of the island" suggested by Bryant in 1845. '"There is now ample room and verge enough upon the island for two parks,'... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1928 - 660 pagine
...streets of the city. The Evening Post was for taking both Jones' Wood and a central site, — "the range of parks and public gardens along the central part of the island" suggested by Bryant in 1845. "'There is now ample room and verge enough upon the island for two parks,'... | |
 | Norman T. Newton - 1971 - 756 pagine
...years earlier to anticipate "the corrupt atmosphere generated in hot and crowded streets" by preparing for "a range of parks and public gardens along the central part of the island or elsewhere."2 With the 1848 eruption of revolutions in Europe, and such catastrophic blows as the Irish... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1975 - 602 pagine
...Park to Primrose Hill, he begged his fellow New Yorkers, in a letter to his newspaper, to establish a "range of parks and public gardens along the central part of the island" while there was still time to keep the city's fast growing populace from "sweeping over them and covering... | |
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The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity, your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere generated in hot and crowded streets, make it a cause of regret, that, in laying out New York, no preparation was made, while it was... 