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Author : Peter Harnik
Release : 2000
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Inside City Parks by : Peter Harnik
Download or read book Inside City Parks written by Peter Harnik. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Tate
Release : 2013-05-13
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 432/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Great City Parks by : Alan Tate
Download or read book Great City Parks written by Alan Tate. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Patrick Alley
Release : 2014-10-27
Genre : Photography
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Book Synopsis Kansas City's Parks and Boulevards by : Patrick Alley
Download or read book Kansas City's Parks and Boulevards written by Patrick Alley. This book was released on 2014-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City the filthiest in the United States. The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was no garbage collection service, and herding livestock through the city was only recently prohibited. Through the diligent efforts of a handful of recently arrived citizens, political, financial, and botanical skills were successfully applied to a nascent parks system. Squirrel pastures, cliffs and bluffs, ugly ravines, and shanties and slums were turned into a gridiron of green, with chains of parks and boulevards extending in all directions. Wherever the system penetrated well-settled localities, the policy was to provide playgrounds, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, pools, and field houses. By the time the city fathers were finished, Kansas City could boast of 90 miles of boulevards and 2,500 acres of urban parks.
Author : Rochester (N.Y.). Department of Parks
Release : 1904
Genre : Parks
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Book Synopsis The Public Parks of the City of Rochester, New York by : Rochester (N.Y.). Department of Parks
Download or read book The Public Parks of the City of Rochester, New York written by Rochester (N.Y.). Department of Parks. This book was released on 1904. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catie Marron
Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis City Parks by : Catie Marron
Download or read book City Parks written by Catie Marron. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
