Large parks / [edited by] Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves ; contributors, John Beardsley ... [etc.].
Contributor(s): Czerniak, Julia
| Hargreaves, George | Harvard University. Graduate School of Design.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: New York : Cambridge, Mass. : Princeton Architectural Press ; in association with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007Description: 255 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781568986241 ; 1568986246 .Subject(s): Parks | Urban landscape architecture | Landscape ecologyDDC classification: 363.68
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending | 363.68 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00175438 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds to urban designs and state parks. Most critical studies of the discipline tend to approach it from a historical or contemporary perspective organized around criteria such as built versus unbuilt, urban versus peripheral, or competition-sponsored versus commission-based. Very few analyses have been undertaken from the seemingly obvious jumping-off point of size. In Large Parks , 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 oflandscape 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-be-built 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 designing these massive and culturally significant works.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. 7)
- Acknowledgments (p. 8)
- Foreword (p. 11)
- Introduction: Speculating on Size (p. 19)
- Chapter 1 Sustainable Large Parks: Ecological Design or Designer Ecology? (p. 35)
- Chapter 2 Uncertain Parks: Disturbed Sites, Citizens, and Risk Society (p. 59)
- Chapter 3 Matrix Landscape: Construction of Identity in the Large Park (p. 87)
- Chapter 4 Large Parks: A Designer's Perspective (p. 121)
- Chapter 5 Re-placing Process (p. 175)
- Chapter 6 Conflict and Erosion: The Contemporary Public Life of Large Parks (p. 199)
- Chapter 7 Legibility and Resilience (p. 215)
- Contributors (p. 252)
- Illustration credits (p. 254)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.