Collecting and Connecting in New York’s Central Park

Abstract

Manhattan’s Central Park is one of the world’s best known public places, but do we need to know exactly how popular it is? Would it be useful to know how many people actually visit the park each year? Or is that question itself a diversion into needless quantitative speculation? If the park welcomes x million or y million persons yearly who cares? As long as they enjoy their visits and find what they came for in the park, why bother counting them?

Keywords

• Urban Knowledges
• lo Squaderno No. 19