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Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities
Alexander Garvin
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Description for Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities
Hardback. 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.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1135g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393732795
SKU
V9780393732795
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About Alexander Garvin
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.
Reviews for Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities
"Garvin provides a great resource to professionals in the park and city planning, design and management realms, as well as to citizen activists and civic officials . . . . [A] 'user's manual' for how to develop, design and manage parks, from 'Site Selection' to 'Finance and Governance'—two of 12 chapters that are replete with examples and beautiful color photos ... Read more