Rethinking Urban Parks

• Author : Setha M. Low,Dana Taplin,Suzanne Scheld
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release : 21 May 2009

Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people. This pathfinding book argues that cultural

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1981

• Author : Isabella M. Mambretti
• Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
• Release : 07 June 2023

The question of how to live in the city and increase the quality of urban life creates new challenges for both urban policies and academic research. Urban parks are important keys for achieving a broader understanding of the urban landscape. Open green spaces in every form are essential for life in our ever more urbanised society and are becoming a vital issue for the liveability of the urban environment.The purpose of the present research is to acquire a more

• Author : Thomas A. More
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1990

The park system of two Massachusetts cities-Holyoke (pop. 44,819) and Fitchburg (pop. 39,332)-produced an estimated 605,608 visitor-hours of use during the summer of 1979. The average park produced 7,877 visitor-hours in Holyoke and 9,624 in Fitchburg, though use levels varied widely. Contrary to original expectations, neighborhood characteristics had little influence on use levels. Rather, park characteristics, particularly activities and amenities, had a significant effect on use. City officials wishing to maximize the use of their park system should consider investments in these resources while researchers

• Author : Alan Tate
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 13 May 2013

Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on unique research including

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1978

• Author : United States. National Park Service. Recreation Grants Division
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1984

• Author : Hal Rothman
• Publisher : Development of Western Resourc
• Release : 07 June 2023

From Yellowstone to the Great Smoky Mountains, America's national parks are sprawling tracts of serenity, most of them carved out of public land for recreation and preservation around the turn of the last century. America has changed dramatically since then, and so has its conceptions of what parkland ought to be. In this book, one of our premier environmental historians looks at the new phenomenon of urban parks, focusing on San Francisco's Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a prototype

• Author : Rohinton Emmanuel
• Publisher : MDPI
• Release : 02 September 2021

This book is relevant to architects, urban designers, planners, and policy makers concerned with enhancing climate-sensitive urban form and planning. It discusses building and neighborhood design: layout and design features that maximize energy efficiency and thermal comfort without compromising the ability of other buildings to enjoy similar benefits; the use of interstitial spaces (piazzas, streets, and parks) to improve the microclimate at the neighbourhood-level; design intervention case studies; innovative uses of interstitial spaces to improve the local climate at the

• Author : President's Commission on Americans Outdoors (U.S.)
• Publisher : Island Press
• Release : 07 June 1987

An advisory commission was charged by the President of the United States to review public and private outdoor recreation opportunities, policies, and programs and to make recommendations for the future. The body of this publication is the final report of the Commission on Americans Outdoors which was delivered on January 28, 1987. Findings are presented in four major sections. These include: (1) "Americans and the Outdoors" (addressing the problems, benefits, and possibilities for outdoor recreation ); (2) "Americans: the People" (stressing the need for an

• Author : G. Jezic,J. Chen-Burger,M. Kusek,R. Sperka,Robert J. Howlett,Lakhmi C. Jain
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 20 May 2020

The book highlights new trends and challenges in research on agents and the new digital and knowledge economy. It includes papers on business process management, agent-based modeling and simulation and anthropic-oriented computing that were originally presented at the 14th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2020), being held as a Virtual Conference in June 17–19, 2020. The respective papers cover topics such as software agents, multi-agent systems, agent modeling, mobile and cloud computing, big data analysis, business

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1997

• Author : Maury Seldin
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1968

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 2023

• Author : Manfred Schrenk,Vasily V. Popovich,Peter Zeile
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 07 June 2023