The Central Park in New York City is one of the most famous parks in the history because of its beauty and authentically connections with the city.
In 1857, the Greensward plan by Frederick Law Olmsted won the competition given to find the specific candidates to build the first central park. The landowners and merchants were inspired by the England styles of their soft and natural landscapes looks. It was designed with the purpose of creating a pastoral landscape inspired in the romanticism era. This park was meant to have picturesque features. The mainly goal of the designers were to build the ideal park for the citizens and immigrants families inhabiting the New York City.
It impacted me that the park layouts orientation is very precise to emphasize the visitor’s access to their spaces of interest. It has multi functions for the people with different classes of status to be public for them. When the designers built the central park in NYC, they assure that there will be areas for the kids and adults. By the 19th century they started to build playground in Central park for the kids. There is the Victorian Gardens amusement park in central park which was established in 2003. The adults and families have the accessibility to landscapes to gather and enjoy the park and to have fun in it. For instance, Central park has different paths like for pedestrians to walk, to ride bicycles, to ride horses’ coaches. People can paddle in boats in those non-natural rivers that were created to give a more tropical look to this park.
By walking through central park, you can have good views and observe some beautiful skyscrapers and ended up being amazed by the beauty and the natural look that the designers accomplishes for this park. Being in central park feels like walking through a different world.
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