Great city parks

Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across western Europe and North America. As a collection they give a clear picture of why parks ha...

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Main Author: Tate, Alan
Published: New York Spon Press 2001
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245 0 0 |a Great city parks  |c Alan Tate 
260 0 0 |a New York  |b Spon Press  |c 2001 
300 0 0 |a 218 p.  |b ill. (some col.), maps  |c 29 cm. 
500 0 0 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-213) and index 
520 |a Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across western Europe and North America. As a collection they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty century. 
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650 0 |a Landscape architecture  |z Canada 
650 0 |a Urban parks  |z Canada. 
650 0 |a Landscape architecture  |z Europe, Western. 
650 0 |a Landscape architecture  |z United States. 
650 0 0 |a Urban parks  |z United States 
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