Central Park, Bird Eye View.(1853-83)
https://www.lipid.org/meetings/2011/annual/nyc.php
- Central park is four million cubic yards with up to four to five million trees planted.
- In 1872, its first year of operation, the park attraction ten million vistors.
- Central park is designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
- Andrew Downing an advocate for landscape design believed that one could bring nature to the city in the forms of parks, but only if they were big enough to stimulate a landscape.
Around Central Park there are 29 sculptures found all across central park.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/centralpark/highlights/6416
nice start...
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