| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Der Central Park in New York und der Einfluß der deutschen Gartentheorie und -praxis auf seine Gestaltung (Central Park in New York and the influence of German garden theory and practice on its creation). By Franziska Kirchner. (Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002. 272 pp. €54.80, ISBN 3-88462-166-1.) In German.
This substantial work with the look of a coffee-table book takes on a special aspect of the cultural history of Central Park: the influence of European (especially German) ideas and practices of landscape and garden design on the planning and realization of Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park.	1
As the author points out, landscape architecture and design were mostly the province of the privileged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, pursued by interested nobles and the moneyed for their private pleasure. The writings on landscape designs and the private model parks in Great Britain and Germany were only gradually made accessible to a broader public as part of a movement toward public parks and gardens.	. . .

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