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"In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental "playground revolution" still remain. Marie Warsh tells the engrossing history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, grassroots movements, and child-development theories of the period. She further details the Central Park Conservancy's efforts decades later to preserve and renew these playgrounds for contemporary use"--

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"In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental "playground revolution" still remain. Marie Warsh tells the engrossing history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, grassroots movements, and child-development theories of the period. She further details the Central Park Conservancy's efforts decades later to preserve and renew these playgrounds for contemporary use"--
Autorenporträt
Marie Warsh is the historian for the Central Park Conservancy. Renowned for his design of urban play environments, plazas, malls, and parks, M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA, also founded the urban landscape architecture program at City University of New York.