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Sun is part of a park’s setting for people, shaded, to be sure, in summer. A high building effectively cutting the sun angle across the south side of a park can kill off a lot of it. Rittenhouse Square, for all its virtues, has this misfortune. On a good October afternoon, for example, almost a third of the square lies completely empty; the great b
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Ellsworth Kelly’s Studio, Just as He Left It (Published 2017)
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Fairfield Porter - Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935–1975
Berkeley #57, 1955 by Richard Diebenkorn - Paper Print - SFMOMA Custom Prints - Custom Prints and Framing From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Cyrus Chen • 3 cards
Standing astride its whole southern border, Crotona Park provided East Tremont with a natural shield, a comfortably wide—and, at that time, heavily policed—dike against the decay flooding up from the south. Its brunt broken on the park’s slopes, the decay oozed around its sides, searching for an opening into the clean streets beyond, but against it
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
You can neither lie to a neighborhood park, nor reason with it. “Artist’s conceptions” and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighborhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a nat
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