Restoring a masterpiece with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, 1982-2011
Working With Betsy Rogers
Institution builder par excellence, her Southern grace perfectly cushioned a flinty Texan resolve. She created the Central Park Conservancy and much else. I had the pleasure of seeing her in action with a number of Parks Commissioners and Mayoral representatives.
I served on her team as the Parks' sociologist and, with the help of students and colleagues, carried out numerous surveys and countless observation's of park users.
Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir, by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Betsy discusses her 2022 collection, Writing New York:
Jane Jacobs prize 2011:
2010 Jane Jacobs Medal Award Recipient Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Photo of Betsy Rogers by Annie Liebovitz
Counting Visitors to the Gates in Central Park, February 12 through February 27, 2005.
Smarthistory – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates
Book Chapter: A Park For the People Doi:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5808.003.0006
Published:
1987
This is from Elizabeth Rogers’ master plan for Central Park. The Graduate Center’s Program in Sociology and its Park Studies Unit did most of the survey work in Central Park during this period of intense park planning and restoration. Our work appears in the chapter entitled:
A Park for the People: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5071/chapter/3029257/A-Park-for-the-People
By :Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Edited by Marianne Cramer,Judith L. Heinz,Bruce Kelly,Philip N. Winslow,John Berendt
The MIT Press DOI:https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5808.001.0001
ISBN electronic:9780262367844
Publication date:1987 Doi: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5808.003.0006
My article about the Gates: Masses at The Gates,, by William Kornblum
Cristo, Jeanne-Claude, Mayor Blumberg, assorted children, Gates, February 2005.
Central Park Conservancy: The Gates
Series of comments about the Gates, on occasion of 20th anniversary:
https://www.tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/bridging2/addonizio.html
‘Central Park Five’ to have entrance named after them in Manhattan’s largest park
Central Park, Winter by William James Glackens, c. 1905 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
