A Place in the Sun, Warsh Lewis

Автор: Marie Warsh, M. Paul Friedberg, Charles A. Birnbaum
Название: Central Park`s Adventure-Style Playgrounds: Renewal of a Midcentury Legacy
ISBN: 0807172014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807172018
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental ""playground revolution"" still remain. In Central Park's Adventure-Style Playgrounds, 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.So-called adventure-style playgrounds featured interconnected forms including pyramids, mounds, and steps, and basic materials such as water and sand, encouraging new levels of creativity and interaction. By the end of the 1970s, ten of Central Park's twenty-two existing playgrounds, formerly paved, sterile, standard-equipment-filled lots dating to the 1930s, had been transformed according to the new design ideals. With time, deterioration prompted concerns about safety, and much of the equipment was removed. However, community interest led the Central Park Conservancy to update and preserve the playgrounds that remained in the park.Building on successful aspects of the playgrounds, designers incorporated new technologies, materials, and equipment that reflect contemporary ideas about children's play and approaches to urban park management. They also developed strategies to better integrate them into the landscapes of the park. Today, Central Park's adventure-style playgrounds represent significant works of renewed modern landscape architecture as well as models for new thinking about playground design.

Автор: Warsh, David
Название: Knowledge and the wealth of nations
ISBN: 0393329887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393329889
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In 1980, Paul Romer solved a problem originally identified by Adam Smith and thereby ushered in a new understanding of economic growth. Using Romer`s discovery as a window, this title looks out over two centuries` worth of insights and false starts by some of history`s best-known economists.

Автор: , Warsh Marie
Название: Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
ISBN: 1940190258 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781940190259
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An intimate account of everyday life and art in 1970s New York from a pioneering feminist artist

Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist's books, lyrical essays and art criticism. In 1971 she began to focus on the use of fabric as a primary medium for sculpture and to participate in a feminist consciousness-raising group which contributed to her involvement in A.I.R., the first cooperative gallery for women in the US. This was a pivotal period in Mayer's life and career, and she documented it in remarkable detail in her 1971 journal, where her plans, enthusiasms, ambitions and insecurities, as well as her opinions about the art around her, are recorded with self-awareness and honesty, along with her concerns about friendship, money and love. This illustrated edition of Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer--previously published in a limited run of 300 copies--includes a new introduction and is expanded to twice the size of the first edition.