Main entry:

Skjonsberg, Matthew, author.

Title & Author:

Living cities : three centuries of park systems / Matthew Skjonsberg.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2025]
©2025

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (some color), color chart, facsimiles (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 x 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Parks foreword / Janet Parks -- Preface -- The social dimension of parks -- Ancient practices and formal conventions -- Three centuries of park systems -- 1713-Bridgeman and Vanbrugh's Stowe -- 1778-Goethe and August's Park an der Ilm -- 1789-Repton's Red Books -- 1806-Nash and Fordyce's Regent Street -- 1812-Telford's Bonar Bridge -- 1829-Loudon's London -- 1847-Paxton's Birkenhead -- 1850-Chicago's park system -- 1853-Davis's Llewellyn Park -- 1860-Vaux and Olmsted's New York -- 1872-The Olmsted's and national parks -- 1898-Howard's "garden cities" -- 1900-Los Angeles's bicycle highway -- 1903-Jensen and Wright's Chicago -- 1905-Crawford and Forestier's parks movement -- 1907-The Kesslers' Cincinnati -- 1909-Geddes and the School of Civic Design -- 1911-Nolen's Madison -- 1916-The National Conference on City Planning -- 1936-Bodmer and Braillard's Lac Léman -- 1947-Wright's Taliesin Valley -- 1962-Lloyd Wright's Los Angeles -- The future of park systems -- Speak for yourself.

Summary:

"The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilize and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design--a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good--experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as "green armatures" hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens. Living Cities offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash's Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago's park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard's plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. Matthew Skjonsberg's book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice for creating human settlements." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783038603634 (hardback)
3038603635 (hardback)

Subject:

Parks History.
Recreation areas History.
Parks History Maps.
Recreation areas History Maps.
Zones de loisirs Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General.

Added entries:

Three centuries of park systems
3 centuries of park systems

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 324157
Call No.: 324157
Copy: 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 324157
Call No.: 324157
Copy: 1
Status: Available