Large parks / [edited by] Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves ; contributors, John Beardsley ... [etc.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Czerniak, Julia.

Hargreaves, George, 1962-

Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parks.

Urban landscape architecture.

Landscape ecology.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : in association with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007.

Summary:

Large Parks examines an increasingly hard-to-define landscape type: the urban park. By viewing such landscapes through the lens of size, the essays contained here cut across conventional binary categories of classification-historic or contemporary, built or unbuilt, competition-sponsored or commissioned-and enable us to analyze landscapes not usually considered collectively. From a discussion of historic parks such as New York's Central Park and Paris's Bois de Boulogne, to intriguing new projects such as the Orange County Great Park in California, Large Parks highlights the intricacies that go into designing these massive and culturally significant works. By analyzing design, concept, construction, and technique, Large Parks gives designers concrete insight into the complicated task of designing a large park that is structured enough to give form, identity, and meaning to the site, but pliant enough to adapt to changing ecologies, demands, and uses. Editors Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves present writings by leading academics and practitioners, along with original graphics and photographs, foregrounding a set of preoccupations in landscape discourse that relate in complex ways, such as ecology, public space, process, place, site, and the city.

Contents:

Foreword / James Corner

Introduction: Speculating on size / Julia Czerniak

Sustainable large parks: ecological design or designer ecology? /.Nina-Marie Lister

Uncertain parks: disturbed sites, citizens, and risk society / Elizabeth K. Meyer

Matrix landscape: construction of identity in the large park / Linda Pollak

Large parks: a designer's perspective / George Hargreaves

Re-placing process / Anita Berrizbeitia

Conflict and erosion: the contemporary public life of large parks / John Beardsley

Legibility and resilience / Julia Czerniak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

ISBN:

9781568986241

1568986246

OCLC:

75087962

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