"faced the challenge of converting what was still a ragged 843-acre wasteland into a pleasure ground that is a masterpiece of landscape design and paragon of social beneficence, while my task was not to build such an extraordinary civic amenity but to develop a plan and find the means to rescue this underappreciated, wholly original tour de force from further destruction—a less remarkable but nevertheless important feat."
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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
(née Browning, born 1936) is an American environmentalist, parks advocate, , and author of numerous books and essays. She was Administrator from 1979 to 1995 and the president of the from 1980 to 1995. She received in 2005 the LaGasse Medal and in 2010 the Jane Jacobs Medal.
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