Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer, , Warsh Marie

Автор: Marie Warsh, M. Paul Friedberg, Charles A. Birnbaum
Название: Central Park`s Adventure-Style Playgrounds: Renewal of a Midcentury Legacy
ISBN: 0807172014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807172018
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental ""playground revolution"" still remain. In Central Park's Adventure-Style Playgrounds, Marie Warsh tells the engrossing history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, grassroots movements, and child-development theories of the period. She further details the Central Park Conservancy's efforts decades later to preserve and renew these playgrounds.So-called adventure-style playgrounds featured interconnected forms including pyramids, mounds, and steps, and basic materials such as water and sand, encouraging new levels of creativity and interaction. By the end of the 1970s, ten of Central Park's twenty-two existing playgrounds, formerly paved, sterile, standard-equipment-filled lots dating to the 1930s, had been transformed according to the new design ideals. With time, deterioration prompted concerns about safety, and much of the equipment was removed. However, community interest led the Central Park Conservancy to update and preserve the playgrounds that remained in the park.Building on successful aspects of the playgrounds, designers incorporated new technologies, materials, and equipment that reflect contemporary ideas about children's play and approaches to urban park management. They also developed strategies to better integrate them into the landscapes of the park. Today, Central Park's adventure-style playgrounds represent significant works of renewed modern landscape architecture as well as models for new thinking about playground design.

Автор: Mayer Bernadette, Warsh Lewis
Название: Piece of Cake
ISBN: 1581771878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781581771879
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Описание: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote PIECE OF CAKE as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976. It recounts the quotidian details of daily activities, negotiating the exigencies of young, married-with-child life, the artistic path and citizenship in the town of Lenox, Massachusetts. It has the "I did this, I did that" of a New York School of Poetry text, as characterized by the poetry of Frank O'Hara, and is somewhat reminiscent of Mayer's work STUDYING HUNGER JOURNALS, written not long before taking up PIECE OF CAKE. As Mayer writes on August 24th, "I will go just one step further and take the liberty of saying that writing this book is different, for me, so completely different from any other experience I have ever had with writing. Now, when I sit down to write I tremble with fear before the page, and from the reactions of my body I can tell that the possibility of finally telling everything, and telling it as if it were all a series of plain household events, is at last coming closer." This work is also distinguished as arguably the first significant male-female collaboration in 20th-century American poetry. Regarding the possible derivation of the work's title, and also exemplary of the work's tenor, is the start of Warsh's entry of August 29: "I also recall getting up and eating a piece of left-over cake (a very sweet store-bought cake with green or possibly pinkish icing) and drinking a glass of milk at the kitchen window. Empty streets, no moon. Michael and Twinkie asleep on the floor of Bernadette's room, Guy and Karen in mine, Bill on the couch in the living room. Marie in her crib. Everyone 'dead to the world, ' a phrase I dislike, what a full house." This book also includes a section of photographs taken within the family from the period of PIECE OF CAKE's composition

Автор: Warsh, David
Название: Knowledge and the wealth of nations
ISBN: 0393329887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393329889
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In 1980, Paul Romer solved a problem originally identified by Adam Smith and thereby ushered in a new understanding of economic growth. Using Romer`s discovery as a window, this title looks out over two centuries` worth of insights and false starts by some of history`s best-known economists.