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9781568986241

Large Parks

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568986241

  • ISBN10:

    1568986246

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-07-26
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Summary

The landscape architecture used to develop large scale sites of 500 acres or more is studied in Large Parks, the first book to focus on green spaces of this size. The text investigates what goes into landscape architecture on the grand scale, whether Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park or Toronto's Downsview Park.Contributors include Linda Pollak, landscape ecologist Nina-Marie Lister and John Beardsley, among others. Large Parks includes a foreword by James Corner.

Author Biography

Julia Czerniak is founder and principal of the landscape design practice CLEAR. She is an associate professor of architecture at Syracuse University and is the editor of Downsview Park Toronto.

George Hargreaves is a professor of landscape architectureat the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture from 1996 to 2003.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. 7
Acknowledgmentsp. 8
Forewordp. 11
Introduction: Speculating on Sizep. 19
Sustainable Large Parks: Ecological Design or Designer Ecology?p. 35
Uncertain Parks: Disturbed Sites, Citizens, and Risk Societyp. 59
Matrix Landscape: Construction of Identity in the Large Parkp. 87
Large Parks: A Designer's Perspectivep. 121
Re-placing Processp. 175
Conflict and Erosion: The Contemporary Public Life of Large Parksp. 199
Legibility and Resiliencep. 215
Contributorsp. 252
Illustration creditsp. 254
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