Ten Thousand Central Parks - Brown Morris, David
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A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods displacing millions, many wonder: What can I do? Ten Thousand Central Parks challenges the despair of inaction, using the history of Central Park as an unlikely yet urgent environmental parable. Created in the years immediately before, during, and after the Civil War, Central Park IS a radical experiment in urban renewal, transforming a chaotic and polluted terrain into an 843-acre…mehr

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A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods displacing millions, many wonder: What can I do? Ten Thousand Central Parks challenges the despair of inaction, using the history of Central Park as an unlikely yet urgent environmental parable. Created in the years immediately before, during, and after the Civil War, Central Park IS a radical experiment in urban renewal, transforming a chaotic and polluted terrain into an 843-acre refuge. More than a scenic landmark, it was a visionary public project that provided jobs, green space, and a lasting environmental legacy. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the park was America's first large-scale public works project, undertaken at a time of national crisis and built almost entirely by immigrants. Its creation offers a powerful lesson: even in turbulent times, cities can be reimagined, and large-scale ecological transformations are possible. With over half of the world's population living in cities today, predicted soon to reach nearly 70%, urban green spaces are more crucial than ever. Morris argues that Central Park is not just an artifact of the past but a model for the future. Its 18,000 trees sequester nearly a million pounds of carbon dioxide annually, proving that ambitious, nature-based solutions can improve the quality of life while addressing environmental challenges. Written with urgency and optimism, Ten Thousand Central Parks offers a fresh perspective on the climate crisis, rejecting doom in favor of possibility. We need projects on the scale of Central Park- thousands of them-to meet today's environmental challenges. This book-a boundary-crossing work of narrative nonfiction-is an invitation to think big, act boldly, and embrace radical hope.
Autorenporträt
David Brown Morris is an award-winning writer and scholar who retired as University Professor at the University of Virginia-in an interdisciplinary position split between the English department and the School of Medicine. His acclaimed writing on the intersections of literature, illness, and society includes The Culture of Pain (PEN Prize winner), Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age, and Eros and Illness. His continuing concern for the environment underlies Earth Warrior and Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road, while he also wrote two prize-winning books in eighteenth studies. The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation have supported his work with fellowships.