City in a Park: A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System

by Lynn Miller and James McClelland

Fairmount 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 City in a Park, James McClelland and Lynn Miller provide an affectionate and comprehensive history of this 200-year-old network of parks.

Originated in the nineteenth century as a civic effort...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439912084
• ISBN13: 9781439912089
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.2" x 10.1"