Great City Parks
Title | Great City Parks PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Tate |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1135159432 |
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.
Urban Green
Title | Urban Green PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Harnik |
Publisher | Island Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2012-07-16 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1597268127 |
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.
Inside City Parks
Title | Inside City Parks PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Harnik |
Publisher | Urban Land Institute |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Great Urban Parks
Title | Great Urban Parks PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Parks |
ISBN |
Saint Louis: the Future Great City of the World
Title | Saint Louis: the Future Great City of the World PDF eBook |
Author | L. U. Reavis |
Publisher | University of Michigan Library |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
People, Parks & Cities - A Guide to Current Good Practice in Urban Parks
Title | People, Parks & Cities - A Guide to Current Good Practice in Urban Parks PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Department of the Environment |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
City Parks
Title | City Parks PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Beanland |
Publisher | Batsford Books |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2023-04-13 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 184994864X |
A visually stunning and beautifully written celebration of park life around the world. Parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. From the author who brought you Lido, here are 50 of the world's greatest parks – but not just a list of the examples we already know. Yes, we'll tell you about those storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Phoenix Park in Dublin, but we'll also take you to the Philippines, to Australia, to provincial Britain and around the world to show you the most historic and the most interesting, the newest and most cutting-edge that mix the best of nature and architecture. We'll explore what you can find there, who goes there, why they are important, and how parks respond to their environments, including ones over a road, on old rail lines or in Berlin's former airport. Examples include: • Freeway Park, Seattle, USA: a bizarre and brilliant brutalist park over a motorway. • Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil: this one contains amazing galleries and theatres. • Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, UK: mountains within a city. • Adelaide's parks, Australia: unique in that the entire city centre is enclosed by parks. and many, many more. Illustrated with glorious photographs throughout, this book is a fascinating record of the world's most interesting and innovative parks, and the people who use them – you'll want to visit them all.