Large Parks

Name: Large Parks
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ISBN: 9781568986241

ISBN-10: 1568986246

ISBN-13: 9781568986241

Edition: 2007

Authors: Julia Czerniak, George Hargreaves, James Corner

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In Large Parks, editors Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves present eight essays by leading scholars and practitioners that engage large urban parks in depth as complex cultural spaces, where key issues of landscape discourse, ecological challenges, social history, urban relations, and place-making are writ large. From historic parks such as New York??'s Central Park and Paris??'s Bois de Boulogne to contemporary projects such as Toronto??'s Downsview Park and Staten Island's Fresh Kills, to newly unveiled and yet-to-bebuilt projects such as Ken Smith??'s ambitious plans for the Orange County Great Park, Large Parks highlights the complexities and unique considerations that go into…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 7/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction: Speculating on Size




Sustainable Large Parks: Ecological Design or Designer Ecology?




Uncertain Parks: Disturbed Sites, Citizens, and Risk Society




Matrix Landscape: Construction of Identity in the Large Park




Large Parks: A Designer's Perspective




Re-placing Process




Conflict and Erosion: The Contemporary Public Life of Large Parks




Legibility and Resilience



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