This diverse new collection of essays, written by scholars,
practitioners, and public-land managers, considers the history of
public park design, as well as the parks themselves as repositories
of cultural values.
In exploring the role design has played in these public spaces,
the contributors look not only at noticeably planned, often urban,
landscapes such as Central Park or Boston's Back Bay Fens but also
at parks such as Yosemite with naturally occurring scenic
qualities, which require less development. The essays present
design as encompassing not simply a park's appearance--its
buildings and landscape features--but also its functions, how it
delivers a culturally significant experience to visitors.
Much park design has been fed into or organized by systems
promoting preservation (the National Park Service being only the
most obvious example), and many of this book's contributors stress
park design's relationship to preservation, as Americans have
become aware of a natural heritage they identify with strongly and
want to experience. Other essays treat such engaging topics as
European influences on early American parks, the peculiar nature of
U.S. regional parks, the effect of the automobile on the outdoor
recreational experience, and--in an international context--parks
and national identity.
ContributorsTal Alon-Mozes, Israel Institute of Technology *
Catherin Bull, University of Melbourne * Theodore Catton,
University of Montana * Esther da Costa Meyer, Princeton University
* Timothy Davis, U.S. National Park Service * Elizabeth Flint
Engle, Western Center for Historic Preservation, Grand Teton
National Park * Christine Madrid French, independent scholar *
Heidi Hohmann, Iowa State University * John Dixon Hunt, University
of Pennsylvania * Brian Katen, Virginia Tech * Richard Longstreth,
George Washington University * Neil M. Maher, New Jersey Institute
of Technology * Catharina Nolin, Stockholm University * Nicole
Porter, University of Nottingham * Elizabeth Barlow Rogers,
Foundation for Landscape Studies * Katherine Solomonson, University
of Minnesota * Lucienne Thys- enocak, Koc University, Istanbul"
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