- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (14 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415306361
- ISBN-13: 978-0415306362
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.7 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,240,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This well-presented academic text is by Alan Tate, with photographs mostly by the late Martin Jones...there are excellent accounts of North American parks...but it should be on the shelves of all serious landscape, urban design and city planning offices."
-Robert Holden, University of Greenwich, "Architect's Journal, January 2002 l This generously illustrated hard-back publication, whilst almost a coffee table book
-Robert Holden, University of Greenwich, "Architect's Journal, January 2002 l This generously illustrated hard-back publication, whilst almost a coffee table book
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Paley Park was completed in 1967 and completely rebuilt to the same design in 1999. Read the first page
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Format:Hardcover
Tate has surveyed 20 city parks in Western Europe and North America ranging from tiny Paley Park New York to the whole of the Minneapolis Park system. He has described each systematically under the heads of History, Development, Planning and Design, Management and Usage, and Plans for the Future, and then drawn conclusions.
He knows his stuff; he sent out questionnaires to the parks managers in 1987 and 1998 and visited the parks, of course. The book is generously illustated with colour photographs by the late Martin Jones, again taken over two decades: Jone was both a professional photographer and landscape architect. There are useful line drawn plans of each park which allow comparisons. This is a bit of a labour of love.
Tate's magnus opus is a must for any academic landscape or planning library. It is not a light read, nor is it a historical account of park design (though the the page 1 thumbnail ouline of two centuires of park design on page 1 is a model of its kind). But it does give a fair and impartial landscape architect's critique.
Each park is accompanied by a line plan. It's a bit pricey and very Anglo-Saxon in world view, but if this is really your subject then do buy it or order a copy for your library. Pity to mix metric and imperial, and Richard Haag's Gasworks Park in Seattle (see p.114) was not the source of the Latzs' design for Duisburg Nord Landschaftspark (Latz's Hafeninsel Burgerpark, Saarbrucken from the 1980's was the source- the park is as much about ruderal vergetation as about keeping a steelworks). But this is quibbling.
I refer my post grad students to it and have just used it while guiding students around La Villette, Parc de Bercy, Citroen Cevennes and Buttes Chaumont in Paris. It is really rather good. Any serious student of city park design (park manager, landscape architect or politician) should read this book.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Invaluable reference
12 Oct 2001
Format:Hardcover
An invaluable reference book for those interested in urban park design. Tate has surveyed 20 city parks in Western Europe and North America ranging from tiny Paley Park New York to the whole of the Minneaplois Park system. He has described each systematically under the heads of History, Development, Planning and Design, Management and Usage, and Plans for the future, and then drawn conclusions.
He knows his stuff; he sent out questionnaires to the parks managers in 1987 and 1998 and the book is generously illustated in colour with photographs by the late Martin Jones, again taken over two decades. This is a bit of a labour of love, Tate's magnus opus is a must for any academic landscape or planning library. It is not a light read, nor is it a historical account of park design (though the the page 1 thumbnail ouline of two centuires of park design on page 1 is a model of its kind). But it does give a fair and impartial landscape architect's critique.
Each park is accompanied by a line plan. It's a bit pricey and very Anglo-Saxon in world view, but if this is really your subject then do buy it or order a copy for your library. Pity to mix metric and imperial, and Richard Haag's Gasworks Park in Seattle (see p.114) was not the source of the Latzs' design for Duisburg Nord Landschaftspark (Latz's Hafeninsel Burgerpark, Saarbrucken from the 1980's was the source).
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PARKS
18 Feb 2007
Format:Hardcover
First of all let me state catagorically that this book is hella overpriced..it's a VERY thorough book on the parks the author decided to cover..quite an eclectic selection. Where was the Bois de Bologne, Hyde Park, Fairmont Park, Hermann Park, Golden Gate Park...???..For this amount of money, I would expect every major urban park in the world to be included..certainly more of the great American Parks...and frankly Hyde Park and the Bois are arguably the most famous in the world, the great Central Park, Prospect Park, and the Teirgarten are included thankfully, but this is hardly comprehensive, the parks he does cover, he goes very indepth and the images are adequate..but get real, the price of this book is in a word: outrageous
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