By Alan Tate, Marcella Eaton
Nice urban Parks is a party of a few of the best achievements of panorama structure within the public realm. it's a comparative research of thirty major public parks in significant towns throughout Western Europe and North the US. jointly, they provide a transparent photograph of why parks were created, how they've been designed, how they're controlled, and what plans are being made for them first and foremost of the twenty-first century.
Based on specified examine together with huge website visits and interviews with the dealing with organizations, this booklet is illustrated all through with transparent plans and photographs– with this new version that includes complete color all through. Tate updates his seminal 2001 paintings with 10 extra parks, together with: The excessive Line in NYC, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. all of the prior urban parks have additionally been up-to-date and revised to mirror present utilization and management.
This ebook displays a trust that good deliberate, good designed and good controlled parks and park platforms will proceed to make significant contributions to the standard of existence in an more and more urbanized global.
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