Future park : imagining tomorrow's urban parks / Amalie Wright ; edited by Anne Findlay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Amalie.

Contributor:

Findlay, Anne.

CSIRO (Australia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban parks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Vic, Aus : Csiro Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first public parks were created on urban 'greenfields'. Once these designated sites had been used, cities looked towards post-industrial sites, and built parks in places that had suffered from environmental degradation, neglect, abandonment and conflict. With finite stocks of urban post-industrial land now also approaching exhaustion, more ways of making parks are required to create inclusive, accessible and resilient urban places. Future Park invites Australian built environment professionals and policymakers to consider the future of parks in our cities. Including spectacular images of public spaces throughout the world, the book describes the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban parks, and then outlines the threats and challenges facing cities and communities in an age when more than half the world's population are urban dwellers. Future Park introduces the need to embrace new public park thinking to ensure that benefits continue to be realised. Future Park illustrates imaginative and resourceful responses to real challenges by highlighting recent proposals and projects. These projects coalesce around four broad themes - linkages, obsolescences, co-locations and installations - responding to contemporary urban paradoxes, and ensuring parks continue to play a vital role in the lives of our cities.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed 10/11/2013).

ISBN:

9780643106628

0643106626

9780643106611

0643106618

OCLC:

841231778