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City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System Lynn Miller
City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System
Lynn Miller
Fairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of more than one hundred parks, squares, and green spaces totaling about 11,000 acres, and is one of the largest landscaped urban park systems in the world. In City in a Park, James McClelland and Lynn Miller provide an affectionate and comprehensive history of this 200-year-old network of parks. Originated in the nineteenth century as a civic effort to provide a clean water supply to Philadelphia, Fairmount Park also furnished public pleasure grounds for boat races and hiking, among other activities. Millions travel to the city to view its eighteenth-century villas, attend boat races on the Schuylkill River, hike the Wissahickon Creek, visit the Philadelphia Zoo, hear concerts in summer, stroll the city's historic squares and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and enjoy its enormous collection of public art. Green initiatives flower today; Philadelphia lives amidst its parks. Filled with nearly 150 gorgeous full-color photographs, City in a Park chronicles the continuing efforts to create what founder William Penn desired: a "greene countrie town."
568 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781439912089 |
| Publishers | Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Pages | 568 |
| Dimensions | 321 × 214 × 31 mm · 1.32 kg |
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