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even within these governmental units. While travel distance between the island's bridges was on paramount concern to the
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, the City Park Department, led by August Hecksher, commissioned the planning firm Wallace, McHarg, Roberts and Todd. Ian McHarg, a Glasgow born landscape architect, who had stated in his much studied book Design with Nature that engineer road builders were "gouging and scarring the landscape without remorse," headed up the landmark study.
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was available, McHarg used data rich maps and overlays which allowed planners to visually understand how social values – historic, residential, economic, recreational, scenic, ecological factors – synergistically interacted with and potentially impacted upon human activity, including road building.
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of Staten Island, issued the first of many position papers beginning by invoking
Olmsted's plea for a linear park; it concluded by presenting an alternate parkway plan that would spare what has come to be known as the Staten Island Greenbelt, a term proposed by landscape architect, Bradford Greene,
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were covered with many species of trees: oak, hickory, maple, beech, as well as lesser quantities of birch, sweet gum, ash, black walnut, wild cherry, and tulip. Below the canopy of this sub-climax forest grew dogwood, ironwood, spicebush, blackberry, wild grape, Virginia creeper, and sassafras,
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with their young children successfully had stopped a proposed parking lot expansion by challenging Moses in court. Two years later, when Robert Moses proposed the construction of a sunken boulevard which would have sped traffic through the middle of the famed
Washington Square Park, the Joint
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staff writer Alan Oser. Summoning their many and diverse talents, their strategy involved developing and advocating for an alternate route in the press, before public officials, and, when necessary, the courts.
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area in the 1950s largely because of the quality of life promised by the open space that still existed. In addition to Bradford Greene, there were Terrence Benbow and Frank Duffy, both attorneys practicing in
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1103:Staten Island Greenbelt
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884:. New York: Vintage.
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1691:DeSalvio Playground
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4324:Other lists
4184:Inwood Hill
4169:Fort Totten
4164:Fort Greene
4134:Alley Pond
4049:Lemon Creek
4039:King Fisher
4019:Great Kills
3969:Arden Woods
3935:South Shore
3884:Willowbrook
3829:Last Chance
3799:Bradys Pond
3770:Westerleigh
3760:Von Briesen
3745:Sobel Court
3740:Silver Lake
3715:Maple Woods
3705:Jones Woods
3645:Clove Lakes
3633:Buono Beach
3609:North Shore
3555:Triangle 54
3535:Springfield
3510:Roy Wilkins
3415:Montbellier
3410:Marie Curie
3330:John Golden
3320:Jamaica Bay
3255:Fort Totten
3250:Fort Tilden
2969:Scarangella
2819:Jamaica Bay
2754:Fort Greene
2744:Dyker Beach
2619:Bensonhurst
2512:Macombs Dam
2457:Bill Rainey
2444:South Bronx
2299:Seton Falls
2252:Hart Island
2232:Ferry Point
2222:Castle Hill
1940:Morningside
1850:Inwood Hill
1748:Finn Square
1609:Carl Schurz
1496:Udalls Cove
1430:State Parks
1380:Great Kills
1353:Fort Tilden
821:nycgovparks
632:Jane Jacobs
584:North Shore
554:, near the
490:in the park
426:Fresh Kills
379:Raritan Bay
246:metamorphic
244:epoch; the
242:Pleistocene
205:Egbertville
198:Description
181:borough of
97: /
72:Coordinates
4410:Categories
4315:Southpoint
4310:Lighthouse
4199:Salt Marsh
4144:Blue Heron
4074:Siedenburg
3984:Blue Heron
3915:LaTourette
3910:Freshkills
3869:St. George
3780:Mid-Island
3540:St. Albans
3515:Rufus King
3375:Little Bay
3305:Hook Creek
3205:Douglaston
3175:Cunningham
3140:Brookville
3115:Breininger
3065:Alley Pond
2929:Owl's Head
2919:Nellie Bly
2614:Betsy Head
2609:Bath Beach
2599:Asser Levy
2547:St. Mary's
2324:West Bronx
2262:Pelham Bay
2209:East Bronx
2125:Trygve Lie
2075:St. Vartan
2065:St. John's
1920:Millennium
1818:Highbridge
1758:Fort Tryon
1721:East River
1564:Asser Levy
1363:Jacob Riis
1179:2009-07-17
1161:2009-07-17
1147:2009-07-18
1132:2009-07-17
1030:newspapers
851:2023-03-03
715:References
562:Opposition
524:New Jersey
316:, and the
292:, and the
258:serpentine
236:along the
85:74°08′21″W
82:40°35′18″N
47:Urban park
4292:Wave Hill
4179:High Rock
4174:Greenbelt
4054:Long Pond
3989:Blueberry
3824:High Rock
3675:Fort Hill
3660:Eibs Pond
3420:O'Donohue
3325:Joe Sabba
3215:Evergreen
3170:Crocheron
3090:Bayswater
3004:St. Johns
2999:Sternberg
2939:Paerdegat
2904:McGolrick
2789:Gravesend
2694:City Line
2589:Amersfort
2537:Printer's
2517:Mill Pond
2467:Claremont
2404:St. James
2394:Riverdale
2314:Starlight
2309:Soundview
2200:The Bronx
2005:Riverside
1955:Open Road
1925:Mill Rock
1905:MacArthur
1813:High Line
1783:Greenacre
1651:City Hall
1531:Manhattan
1463:Riverbank
1325:Stonewall
921:NYC Parks
803:Citations
738:Manhattan
589:Manhattan
510:chairman
434:Stapleton
270:Paleozoic
262:magnetite
230:Todt Hill
130:NYC Parks
4368:Category
4194:Prospect
4014:Fairview
3959:Annadale
3879:Westwood
3495:Rochdale
3480:Railroad
3430:Overlook
3370:Linnaeus
3315:Idlewild
3285:Highland
3275:Haggerty
3210:Elmhurst
3200:Doughboy
3100:Big Bush
3013:Tompkins
2979:Seth Low
2964:Saratoga
2949:Red Hook
2944:Prospect
2909:McKinley
2899:McCarren
2869:Lindower
2814:JJ Byrne
2804:Highland
2704:Columbus
2674:Canarsie
2659:Bushwick
2571:Brooklyn
2190:Zuccotti
2095:Teardrop
1875:John Jay
1778:Gramercy
1681:Damrosch
1666:Columbus
954:(2010).
754:Montreal
746:Brooklyn
696:See also
613:, Mayor
580:Maryland
520:Brooklyn
381:and the
370:moraines
334:bluegill
322:blue jay
276:Wildlife
266:tectonic
194:others.
175:parkland
53:Location
4394:Commons
4149:Crotona
4084:Wegener
3999:Carlton
3640:Barrett
3590:Wayanda
3560:Tribute
3545:Travers
3405:Marconi
3400:Macneil
3345:Kissena
3300:Hoffman
3075:Astoria
3060:Admiral
3032:Wingate
3017:Trinity
2974:Seaside
2679:Carroll
2557:Tremont
2542:Richman
2522:Mullaly
2477:Crotona
2419:Vidalia
2294:Richman
2247:Harding
2120:Tribeca
1880:Liberty
1726:Pier 42
1661:Collect
1646:Chelsea
1614:Central
1584:Bennett
1569:Battery
1245:Federal
1044:scholar
878:(1974)
789:Chicago
630:led by
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152:Website
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3365:Linden
3295:Hinton
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3052:Queens
3009:Sunset
2894:Marine
2874:Linton
2864:Linden
2834:Kaiser
2779:Fulton
2739:Domino
2734:Cooper
2699:Coffey
2654:Brower
2374:Jerome
2364:Harris
2337:Bridge
2242:Haffen
2155:Wagner
2080:Straus
2045:Seward
2025:Sakura
2020:Rucker
1768:Gorman
1599:Bryant
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783:; and
766:Boston
764:; the
595:; and
467:Albany
366:Lenape
288:, the
254:schist
144:Status
4222:Bronx
4115:Other
3949:Aesop
3804:Deere
3680:Gaeta
3665:Faber
3565:Tudor
3105:Bowne
2984:Shore
2839:Kelly
2664:Byrne
2487:Grant
2354:Devoe
2342:Bronx
2304:Seton
1960:Paley
1855:Isham
1706:Duane
1686:Dante
1419:State
1051:JSTOR
1037:books
522:with
506:then-
428:near
234:Maine
4214:Zoos
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2359:Ewen
1023:news
964:ISBN
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161:.org
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