ELIZABETH BARLOW ROGERS is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and the author of nine previous books, most recently Green Metropolis. She has long been involved in historic landscape preservation and was the first person to hold the title of Central Park Administrator, a position created in 1979. In 1980, she was instrumental in founding the Central Park Conservancy, a public-private partnership supporting the restoration and management of the park. She served in both positions until 1996. A native of San Antonio, Texas, she has made New York her home since 1964.
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The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today. Elizab... SEE MORE