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Central Park Research Paper

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Unlike the classic patterned gardens, for example the French Garden Jardin du Chateau de Versailles, Central Park was influenced by the Britain Romantic Landscape movement in the 18th C. Trees, lawns, rocks, lakes, and even the paths inside Central Park were imitations of what the British called the landscape. Central Park reproduced the natural landscape and created a picturesque beauty which matched people’s imagination of the rural landscape—nature gently tamed. Today covered with luxuriant vegetation and surrounded by skyscrapers, Central Park not only looks like but functions as an oasis in New York City. Looking at the rectangular site of New York’s Central Park, it seems that the park and city demonstrate two extremes—the man-made and

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