Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities

Alexander Garvin

ISBN 10: 0393732797 / ISBN 13: 9780393732795

Published by WW Norton & Co, 2010

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Everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials, and citizen activists need to know about the critical urban role of public parks. Num Pages: 224 pages, 250 color photographs and plans. BIC Classification: AMV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 209 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1136. . 2010. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393732797
• ISBN 13: 9780393732795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials, and citizen activists need to know about the critical urban role of public parks.

Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them. 250 color photographs and plans

About the Author

Alexander Garvin heads a planning and design firm and lives in New York. He is an adjunct professor of urban planning and management at Yale University.