Whether we call a design good or bad often comes down to whether we agree with the implicit assumptions that brought it about. Those that produced Central Park’s Lasker Pool and Skating Rink, which ...

Sheep Meadow is quiet on this Wednesday morning in June. The guitar-strummers and sunbathers who lounged on its lawn yesterday are gone, and now its only occupants are the elms and sycamores that ...

When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New York’s Central Park starting in the late 1850s, they created a set of diverse landscapes—including fields, meadows, lawns, and broad lakes. In ...

Lasker Rink, a swimming pool and skating rink, activated Central Park’s north end since 1966, but was due for an upgrade. This week the renamed and revamped recreation spot opened again to the public ...

Fagus sylvatica, European Beech, Lake Park, Milwaukee (all images by Stanley Greenberg, courtesy Hirmer Publishers) “[W]e determined to think of no results to be realized in less than forty years,” ...

Today, the history of the community, which once existed near Tanner Spring on the west edge of the park, is being reinterpreted. Efforts are underway by the Central Park Conservancy to commemorate the ...