City Parks - Public Places, Private Thoughts

Catie Marron's City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world's most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Toibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them. Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; Andre Aciman muses on time's fleeting nature and the changing face of New York viewed from the High Line; Pico Iyer explores hidden places and privacy in Kyoto; Jonathan Alter takes readers from the 1968 race riots to Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park; Simon Winchester invites us along on his adventures in the Maidan; and Bill Clinton writes of his affection for Dumbarton Oaks. Oberto Gili's color and black-and-white photographs unify the writers' unique and personal voices. Taken around the world over the course of a year, in every season, his pictures capture the inherent mood of each place. Fusing images and text, City Parks is an extraordinary and unique project: through personal reflection and intimate detail it taps into collective memory and our sense of time's passage.

Product details

• Authors: Oberto Gili, Catie Marron
• Assisted by: Oberto Gili (Photographs), Catie Marron (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9780062231796
• ISBN: 978-0-06-223179-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 279 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Essays, ARCHITECTURE: URBAN DESIGN, TRAVEL: Parks & Campgrounds