Sara Cedar Miller

With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world's densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the...

For more than 160 years, Central Park has been the centrepiece of New York City, with more than 42 million visits each year. In Seeing Central Park, Sara Cedar Miller guides readers through America's most popular and celebrated park, where natural and manmade features are interwoven into a spectacular work of art. Combining superb research and writing with breathtaking photographs,...