9.21.18
5pm
Campbell Hall 158
Saving Central Park. A History and a Memoir
In 1980, Betsy Rogers founded the Central Park Conservancy, the first public-private urban park partnership, to create a management and funding mechanism to care for New York’s Central Park (1857). After decades of disinvestment, Rogers and other New Yorkers recognized the need to increase awareness of the park’s cultural significance to the history of the city, its ecological value as a habitat for wildlife, and its social role in the everyday lives of so many city residents. In addition to her work as the President of the Central Park Conservancy, Rogers is an accomplished landscape critic and historian authoring numerous books including The Forests and Wetlands of New York City, Frederick Law Olmsted’s New York, Landscape Design. A Cultural and Architectural History, and Green Metropolis. She is the President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, based in NYC.
Join Professor of Landscape Architecture Beth Meyer, co-director of the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes, in an informal conversation with Rogers about her new book, Saving Central Park. A History and a Memoir (2018) which chronicles her extensive experiences living near and working in this seminal American urban public park.
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