Main entry:

Wurman, Richard Saul, 1935-

Title & Author:

The nature of recreation : a handbook in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted, using examples from his work / [by] Richard Saul Wurman, Alan Levy [and] Joel Katz, with Jean McClintock and Howard Brunner.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press for the American Federation of Arts, [1972]
©1972.

Description:

76 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-71).
The nature of recreation ; Introduction -- Frederick Law Olmstead -- What did you do last year? What would you like to have done? -- Our recreational needs -- Identifying our needs by performance components ; What is performance? -- Inactive/active -- Individual/group -- Young/old -- Specific/nonspecific -- Small/large -- Linear/nonlinear -- Flat/sloped -- Access and distribution -- Movement -- Safety and comfort -- Time, temperature, weather -- Preservation and construction -- Maintenance -- Working with performance ; Analyzing activities by performance components -- Locating your recreational resources -- Analyzing one of your recreational resources -- Developing a program -- Identifying recreational possibilities -- Choosing among recreational possibilities -- Developing recreational resources -- Afterword -- Appendix ; An Olmstead bibliography -- A recreational bibliography -- The street -- A game glossary -- Game spaces -- Credits and acknowledgments.

Summary:

This handbook is·a response to the sesquicentennial celebration of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted. Enlarging our ability to communicate our recreational needs and desires is a subject that demands our collective advocacy. We have attempted to help the reader learn to articulate constructive demands for recreation and for recreational facilities. Our tribute to Frederick Law Olmsted uses his works and words as a beginning point for this handbook-long definition of the nature of recreation. And we have attempted a meeting and an embrace between the performances of recreation and the physical places and spaces such performances desire to occupy. At best, this book will help you see some things that you have always seen but never seen.

ISBN:

0262230631
9780262230636
0262730340 (pbk.)
9780262730341 (pbk.)

Subject:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Outdoor recreation.
Outdoor life.
Parks.
Loisirs de plein air.
Plein air.
Urban regions Outdoor recreation planning United States. Festschriften

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Guides et manuels.

Added entries:

Levy, Alan, 1932 February 21-2018, author.
Katz, Joel, 1943- author.
McClintock, Jean. (Olmstead sesquicentennial committee) contributor.
Brunner, Howard. (Murphy Levy Wurman) photographer.

Handbook in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted, using examples from his work

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 85705
Call No.: IDM; ID:93-B1700
Status: Available