{"product_id":"9781935195375","title":"Pleasure Drives and Promenades: The History of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn Parkways","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1860s and early 1870s, the local government of rapidly growing Brooklyn built Prospect Park, a large public park on its outskirts. During the same period, Brooklyn’s local council implemented a plan to connect Prospect Park and New York City’s recently built Central Park and to link additional planned public open spaces and parks with a new type of wide, tree-lined street called a parkway. The parkway would serve as a spine for the development of bucolic suburbs, whose residents could then travel to the parks on streets that shared a park-like feel and promoted gregarious social activities, such as promenading. These planned developments anticipated New York City’s annexing of Brooklyn in 1896.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn’s Parkway Plan of pleasure drives and promenades was the collaborative undertaking of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Prospect and Central parks with partner Calvert Vaux, and forward-looking park commissioner, James S. T. Stranahan. Featuring contemporary architectural drawings and period illustrations, \u003ci\u003ePleasure Drives and Promenades\u003c\/i\u003e charts the inception and early implementation of their plan as well as its lasting influence on the urban landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia College Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058687885552,"sku":"9781935195375","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935195375_p0.jpg?v=1763656294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935195375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}