{"product_id":"city-in-a-park-lynn-miller-9781439912089","title":"City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System","description":"\u003cp\u003eFairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of more than one hundred parks, squares, and green spaces totaling about 11,000 acres, and is one of the largest landscaped urban park systems in the world. In \u003ci\u003eCity in a Park, \u003c\/i\u003eJames McClelland and Lynn Miller provide an affectionate and comprehensive history of this 200-year-old network of parks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginated in the nineteenth century as a civic effort to provide a clean water supply to Philadelphia, Fairmount Park also furnished public pleasure grounds for boat races and hiking, among other activities. Millions travel to the city to view its eighteenth-century villas, attend boat races on the Schuylkill River, hike the Wissahickon Creek, visit the Philadelphia Zoo, hear concerts in summer, stroll the city's historic squares and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and enjoy its enormous collection of public art. Green initiatives flower today; Philadelphia lives amidst its parks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with nearly 150 gorgeous full-color photographs, \u003ci\u003eCity in a Park\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the continuing efforts to create what founder William Penn desired: a \"greene countrie town.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn Miller, James McClelland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439912084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439912089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 8.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Lynn Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935009865983,"sku":"9781439912089","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_00b25738-40ad-419a-85aa-53ea06522172.jpg?v=1681417327","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/city-in-a-park-lynn-miller-9781439912089","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}