Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

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

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Cover
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9781568986241 (pbk.)
1568986246 (pbk.)

Subject:

Park, ...
Parks.
Urban landscape architecture.
Landscape ecology.
Parcs.
Paysage urbain.
Écologie du paysage.
urban landscapes.
public parks.
landscaping.
design.
waste land.
Großstadt
Landschaftsplanung
Landschaftsökologie
Stadt
Parker.
Landskapsarkitektur.
Landskapsekologi.
Park.
stadsparken
urban parks
openbare parken
parken
parks
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
ontwerp
landschapsecologie
landscape ecology
gevalsanalyse
case studies
stedelijke planning
urban planning
Public Green and Parks
Landscape Architecture (General)
Openbare parken en groenvoorzieningen
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)

Added entries:

Czerniak, Julia.
Hargreaves, George, 1962-
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252867
Call No.: SB481 .L37 2007
Status: Available