Anticipating Municipal Parks

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1862549664
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anticipating Municipal Parks written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelaide is well known for its encircling park lands and beautiful gardens. They have been the site of many prestigious events and at times the source of much contention. In Anticipating Municipal Parks, Don Johnson contests the accepted understanding that Colonel William Light was the sole architect of the city of Adelaide, revealing the often-ignored role of Light's Deputy Surveyor, George Strickland Kingston. Johnson also investigates the role and influence of John Arthur Roebuck and John Claudius Loudon on the course of town-planning theory, and the political and theoretical influences leading to the economic and social ideas of Ebenezer Howard and his Garden City. This is a fascinating look at how Adelaide helped define city planning ideas in the nineteenth century.

Author : Alexander Garvin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393732797
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Parks written by Alexander Garvin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Julie Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429862342
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture and Landscape of Health written by Julie Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Written from an architectural perspective, it examines the historical relationship between health and place through the emergence of dedicated therapeutic building types from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, a time when the environment was viewed as integral to the health of both the individual and the population. This book provides an overview of ideas surrounding health and place and their impact on architecture and designed landscapes. Different therapeutic buildings and places are examined, including public parks, asylums, sanatoria, leprosaria, quarantine stations, public baths and healthy homes. Each chapter outlines the medical context, common therapies, a history of buildings designed in response to these, and an examination of how such places were perceived to have functioned. Illustrated using geographically and temporally diverse examples, the book includes designs drawn from locations across the world including Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia. The Architecture and Landscape of Health identifies and examines moments in the conversation between health and design, and is a timely look back on the resultant buildings and places, offering insights which could inform the design of therapeutic places of the future. An ideal read for researchers, academics and upper-level postgraduate students interested in architecture, and architectural history, particularly relating to healthcare design and medical history.

Author : Maine. Department of Parks and Recreation. Planning & Research Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan written by Maine. Department of Parks and Recreation. Planning & Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anticipated Effects of Major Coal Development on Public Services, Costs and Revenues in Six Selected Counties written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317133188
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

Author : Galen Cranz
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Park Design written by Galen Cranz and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1982 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tessa Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317005562
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy written by Tessa Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy, as none of the cities were ever built, they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known, such as Tommaso Campanella’s Civitas Solis, while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy’s Designs for Cottages, are relatively obscure. However, even with the best known works, this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author’s political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program, ArchiCAD, using Artlantis to render. Plans, sections, elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht Dürer - Fortified Utopia; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought, the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought, they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts:

Author : Peter Harnik
Publisher : Urban Land Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside City Parks written by Peter Harnik and published by Urban Land Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City Record written by New York (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: