Writing the City - Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow
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The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. Most important among these is the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, the organization that transformed one of the city's most degraded places into its most valuable.

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The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a committed New Yorker. Writing the City reveals the many facets of her passion as a citizen of the great metropolis and her lifelong efforts to protect and improve it. Most important among these is the creation of the Central Park Conservancy, the organization that transformed one of the city's most degraded places into its most valuable.
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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Hon. ASLA, is president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. Rogers was named the first Central Park Administrator in 1979 and a year later became founding president of the Central Park Conservancy. She has written widely on the history of landscape design and the cultural meaning of place. Some of her books are The Forests and Wetlands of New York City; Frederick Law Olmsted's New York; The Central Park Book; Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History;Writing the Garden: A Literary Conversation across Two Centuries, a 2012 American Horticultural Society Book Award winner; and Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir. Among her many honors and awards, she holds the Rockefeller Foundation's 2010 Jane Jacobs Medal for lifetime achievement.