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Unit 4

Lions and Tigers and Bears

Lions and Tigers and Bears

Bill Buford

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Lions and Tigers and Bears

Lions and Tigers and Bears

Introduction Language study Text appreciation Extension

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Introduction to Bill Buford

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Introduction to Bill BufordBill Buford is a staff writer and European correspondent for the New Yorker, where he was previously the fiction editor for eight years. He was the editor-in-chief for Granta magazine for sixteen years and was also the publisher of Granta Books. He is the author of Among the Thugs. He lives in New York City.

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I.II.

Founding Commissioners of Central ParkCentral Park Location on Manhattan Map

III. Central Park History

IV. Central Park

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Calvert Vaux

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The founding commissioners: the city officials who were appointed to establish Central Park. Commissioners are officials in government, esp. those in charge of departments.

The founding commissioners of Central Park were thelandscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The two designed and oversaw the first-phase

construction of the Park which began in 1858 and ended in1878.

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Robert Moses (1888—1981) was a New York state and municipal official whose ambitious public works projects of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s transformed the urban

landscape of New York City. He expanded the State’s parksystem and built numerous parkways and hundreds of new playgrounds and parks and important highways, bridges and

tunnels linking the boroughs of New York City.

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Moses preferred recreational facilities to the rural scenery stressed by the English Romanticists, and an ordered and symmetrical design in French Renaissance style, evident in

the southern Central Park. Therefore, under Moses, CentralPark gained 19 playgrounds, 12 ball-fields, handball courts, and the skating rink .

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II. Central Park Location on Manhattan Map

New York’s green

Centra l Park

rectangle

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III. Central Park HistoryThere are three elements in the architecture of Central Park. English Romanticism is characterized by the picturesque

ideal to blend with the natural environment. CentralPark’s founding commissioners Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were influenced by this tradition. Their ideal was

to allow New Yorkers to experience a day in thepastoral country without leaving the island city. Another style is Classicism characterized by formal symmetry and the use of straight lines, evident in the south end of the Park.

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III. Central Park HistoryThe Park was pressed for primarily by

wealthy merchants and landowners. Inthe first decade after its completion, it was clearly the playground of the wealthy. It was located too far uptown to be wi

thin walking distance for the city’s

working class population.

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III. Central Park History Until the late 19th century, workers comprised but a fraction of the visitors to the Park when they launched a successful campaign to have concerts held on Sundays. Saturday afternoon concerts were for middle-class audiences, for the six-day working week precluded attendance by the working class.

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III. Central Park History Indeed the concept of creating the park was originally conceived by wealthy New Yorkers who admired the public grounds of London and Paris. However, with the

maturing of the nation and the rise of its power, thepride of Americanism gradually took the upper hand. The author therefore describes the Park proudly as

efficient, purposeful and distinctive—neither romanticnor classical, and neither English nor French, but distinctively American.

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IV. Central Parkthe urban wonders of the

world, a greenoasis in the great concrete, high-rise

landscape ofNew York City

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For most New Yorkers, Central Park is our constant definition of open space, room to run and the romance of reading under a tree. Free and open to the public, Central Park is

our citywide campus andour common backyard. “a garden for all as private Eden”