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Author | : Alan Tate |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1135159432 |
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Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with the managing organisations, this book is illustrated throughout with clear plans and professional photographs for each park. This book reflects a belief that well-planned, well-designed and well-managed parks remain invaluable components of liveable and hospitable cities.
Author | : Alan Tate |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317612981 |
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Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with the managing organisations, this book is illustrated throughout with clear plans and photographs– with this new edition featuring full colour throughout. Tate updates his seminal 2001 work with 10 additional parks, including: The High Line in NYC, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. All the previous city parks have also been updated and revised to reflect current usage and management. This book reflects a belief that well planned, well designed and well managed parks and park systems will continue to make major contributions to the quality of life in an increasingly urbanized world.
Author | : Catie Marron |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0062231804 |
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Catie Marron’s City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world’s most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them. Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; André Aciman muses on time’s fleeting nature and the changing face of New York viewed from the High Line; Pico Iyer explores hidden places and privacy in Kyoto; Jonathan Alter takes readers from the 1968 race riots to Obama’s 2008 victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park; Simon Winchester invites us along on his adventures in the Maidan; and Bill Clinton writes of his affection for Dumbarton Oaks. Oberto Gili’s color and black-and-white photographs unify the writers’ unique and personal voices. Taken around the world over the course of a year, in every season, his pictures capture the inherent mood of each place. Fusing images and text, City Parks is an extraordinary and unique project: through personal reflection and intimate detail it taps into collective memory and our sense of time’s passage.
Author | : Alexander Garvin |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0393732797 |
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Everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials, and citizen activists need to know about the critical urban role of public parks. Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them.
Author | : Peter Harnik |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2012-07-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1597268127 |
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For years American urban parks fell into decay due to disinvestment, but as cities began to rebound—and evidence of the economic, cultural, and health benefits of parks grew— investment in urban parks swelled. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently cited meeting the growing demand for parks and open space as one of the biggest challenges for urban leaders today. It is now widely agreed that the U.S. needs an ambitious and creative plan to increase urban parklands. Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for “built out” cities to add much-needed parks. Peter Harnik first explores the question of why urban parkland is needed and then looks at ways to determine how much is possible and where park investment should go. When presenting the ideas and examples for parkland, he also recommends political practices that help create parks. The book offers many practical solutions, from reusing the land under defunct factories to sharing schoolyards, from building trails on abandoned tracks to planting community gardens, from decking parks over highways to allowing more activities in cemeteries, from eliminating parking lots to uncovering buried streams, and more. No strategy alone is perfect, and each has its own set of realities. But collectively they suggest a path toward making modern cities more beautiful, more sociable, more fun, more ecologically sound, and more successful.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Parks |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexander Garvin |
Publisher | : Urban Land Institute |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Describes how 15 derelict areas of the United States were developed into thriving new parks and offers advice to public agencies and private developers on how to go about revitalizing urban areas. The text includes information on financing techniques, design, management and programmming.
Author | : Great Britain. Department of the Environment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Download People, Parks & Cities - A Guide to Current Good Practice in Urban Parks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : L. U. Reavis |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Harnik |
Publisher | : Urban Land Institute |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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