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by Alan Tate (Author) "Paley Park was completed in 1967 and completely rebuilt to the same design in 1999 ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (14 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415306361
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415306362
  • Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 672,193 in Books (See Bestsellers 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


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This marvellous book screams to be read. Well-researched and beautifully presented. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars a serious and invaluable study of western city parks, 25 Nov 2001
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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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