WRITE A 1.5 PAGE ESSAY ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS
1. What kinds of social concerns motivated the construction of Central Park?
2. How did the designers of the Park hope that it would influence social experiences AND social behaviors?
3. Was there a democratic idea about society involved in the planning and thought put into making the Park?
4. What significance did ideas about sculpted nature have in the designing/imagining of the Park? Why were these ideas seen as important on the level of social life?
5. Was Central Park built based upon a belief that nature is naturally beautiful, or was it designed according to a man-made, unnatural idea of how nature is beautiful?
6. What relationships between practical, social, and aesthetic values do we see in the designing and building of the Park?
7. Might we say that the democratic social values that seemed to motivate the building of the park were completely contradicted by what happened to Seneca Village?
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