The Politics Of Park Design
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The Politics Of Park Design
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Author : Galen Cranz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Politics Of Park Design written by Galen Cranz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with City planning categories.
The Politics Of Park Design
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Author : Galen Cranz
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1982
The Politics Of Park Design written by Galen Cranz and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Social Science categories.
Galen Cranz surveys the rise of the park system from 1850 to the present through 4 stages - the pleasure ground, the reform park, the recreation facility and the open space system.
Small Urban Spaces
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Author : Whitney North Seymour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Small Urban Spaces written by Whitney North Seymour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Architecture categories.
Environmental Design Research
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Author : Galen Cranz
language : en
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-21
Environmental Design Research written by Galen Cranz and has been published by Cognella Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-21 with Environmental engineering categories.
"Understanding the significance of the physical environment in our lives is important to all of us as citizens and as future design professionals. Through this reader, we want to help urban design, architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture students develop social perspectives on their work. Accordingly, the book has several objectives: As an introduction to the field of human-environment studies, it offers working knowledge of theoretical concepts about the relationship between people and their environments. It teaches content from the viewpoint of three different American subcultures, bringing home the point that American life expresses multiple experiences, not one. The readings reflect our choice to compare and contrast Anglo-American, Chinese-American, and Hispanic-American experiences as examples. It engages students in research about our involvement with buildings, interiors, and places. We want students to know how to use other people's published research, and how to do their own original research. We want them to be able to contribute to programming and evaluation research. Hence, the book includes articles about data collection techniques and methodological issues. Many of the articles model how to think critically about the values embedded in design and the humanistic consequences for people, their behavior, and feelings. Because we define environment broadly to include the object and the body up to the neighborhood and city, the readings cover all scales. Each reading does double or triple duty. We list each one by year to encourage us all to use the varied readings for different purposes, and to show development of the field since its inception in the 1960s. Professor Galen Cranz, PhD Sociology (University of Chicago), has taught social and cultural processes in architectural and urban design, including research methods, since 1971 at Berkeley and Princeton. She is the author of "The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design" (1998) and "The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America" (1982). Dr. Cranz has published dozens of scholarly articles. As a member of design teams, she won first prize in a national competition for an inner-city park in St. Paul, Minnesota; first prize for Parc la Villette, Paris; and seventh place in the Spectacle Island Design Competition, Boston. Current research activity includes body-conscious design, the sociology of taste, the office of the future, sustainable urban parks, and ethnographic research for designers. Dr. Cranz was recently awarded the 2011 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career Award."
Urban Design Downtown
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Author : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-10-19
Urban Design Downtown written by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-19 with Architecture categories.
"Insightful and a delight to read, the book should be read by city officials, land developers, and anyone involved or merely interested in the evolution and design of urban form and space."—Richard T. Lai, Arizona State University
American Playgrounds
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Author : Susan G. Solomon
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2005
American Playgrounds written by Susan G. Solomon and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
A compelling history, a manifesto, and a manual for change.
Battery Park City
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Author : David L. A. Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Battery Park City written by David L. A. Gordon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Architecture categories.
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979. Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.
Parks For Profit
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Author : Kevin Loughran
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-25
Parks For Profit written by Kevin Loughran and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-25 with Social Science categories.
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborhood anchors, with a host of environmental and community benefits. Yet there are clear economic motives as well—successful parks have helped generate billions of dollars of city tax revenues and real estate development. Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic goals. As urban economies have become restructured around finance, real estate, tourism, and cultural consumption, parks serve as civic shields for elite-oriented investment. Tracing changing ideas about cities and nature and underscoring the centrality of race and class, Loughran argues that postindustrial parks aestheticize past disinvestment while serving as green engines of gentrification. A wide-ranging investigation of the political, cultural, and economic forces shaping park development, Parks for Profit reveals the social inequalities at the heart of today’s new urban landscape.
Small Urban Spaces
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Author : Whitney North Seymour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Small Urban Spaces written by Whitney North Seymour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
The Invention Of Public Space
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Author : Mariana Mogilevich
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2020-08-04
The Invention Of Public Space written by Mariana Mogilevich and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Architecture categories.
The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration.