This park was designed to be a serenity to New Yorker’s, like the backyard to their homes. It was constructed to show European styles that Americans did not have, which caused more to visit. There was a sudden growth of people moving closer to the Park, in the newspaper article The Sun Apartment Renting Guide New York. Also this primary source about apartments sold near Central Park The Sun- Apartment Guide New York. It pictures the growth of apartments and need for urban life. Since the park ran through 5th Avenue prices of houses and apartments were more expensive. This maintained an idea of Central Park being “the playground for the wealthy”. Around the earlier years,1950’s, this park was visited by wealthy New Yorker’s because of it’s social attractions, carriage rides, being able to be insight in the park It also gave an opportunity to the lower class not to drink all day but advantage from a clean environment and enjoyable activities. Around the park consisted of residential homes that the wealthy resided in, which caused urbanization to grow. Olmsted and Vauz wrote, said in Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities By-Alexander Garvin “[…] Let us consider, therefore, what will at that time to be satisfactory, for it is then that the design will be judged…No longer an open suburb[…]”. The park had several conflicting view points about the construction of the park and the way that the land was being used for, but this park caused many rapid developments that New York City needed.
When this 840 acre land stretching from 59th street to 106th street and 5th to 8th avenue was opened it turned to the publics eyes. They saw it as a beautiful place, that was constructed aesthetically. Central Park had created a need for more parks in the city which changed the scene of urban life in the city. The primary source shows a newspaper The Sun, April 27, 1919, Section 7 Magazine Section, Image 69, that talks about the author of the article having a friend from Japan walk through the park, saying, “How much this all is like home, like Japan.” The country Japan consist of Japanese gardens, with beautiful flowers, that this person saw a similarity in Central Park to his country and gardens. The European styles made the Park seem less American and more of a different perspective.
Their was one problem with the use of public money for urbanization in the city. Tammany Hall’s misuse and fraud of the public money jeopardized the chance of gaining more public parks in the city. Before smaller parks and recreational areas could not be allowed financially by this corruption. The Citizen’s Union did not want the public money to go to waste by this act of corruption, they were against the stinginess and wrongful doing of the economy. In the primary source Small Parks and Recreation Piers for the People- jstor it states that“A liberal, thorough, careful expenditure of money is demanded by the present needs of the people and the prospective needs of future generations in Greater New York.” This then allowed the proper use of money to go into funding public parks and a overall growth of urbanization.
Without the creation of Central Park, the growth of residential areas near the park might have never came to be seen. The park as of now consists of a skating rink, a zoo, and is centrally located in the city. This development still would cause urban life, because of the benefits of the park to the classes of New York. Without this park the city would seize to grow economically, governmentally, working, ecologically, artistically, and a sociable park.
Central Park was a domino effect of mass urbanization and growth of urban life in New York City, and other cities in the United States. There was a need for more parks in the city, which also caused the park to be more visited.
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New York City The History of Central Park
This source told me the background information about Central Park and how it was developed.
Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities By-Alexander Garvin
Book about why Central Park was built and the benefits of it.
Book about why Central Park was built and the benefits of it.
Primary Source: The Sun, April 27, 1919, Section 7 Magazine Section, Image 69
About the description of the parks design and how it was built to be a artistic scenery.
About the description of the parks design and how it was built to be a artistic scenery.
Primary Source: The Sun Apartment Renting Guide New York
Showed the ads of apartments being sold and how urban life was affected, because it was around Central Park.
Showed the ads of apartments being sold and how urban life was affected, because it was around Central Park.
Primary Source: The Sun- Apartment Guide New York
Showed the ads of apartment being sold and showing urbanization.
Showed the ads of apartment being sold and showing urbanization.
Primary Source: Small Parks and Recreation Piers for the People- jester
This source talked about the misuse and fraud of public money by Tammany Hall. How they used the money versus how they should be using the money.
This source talked about the misuse and fraud of public money by Tammany Hall. How they used the money versus how they should be using the money.
