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Public Nature: Scenery, History, and Park Design,Used
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This diverse new collection of essays, written by scholars, practitioners, and publicland 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 Bostons 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 parks appearanceits buildings and landscape featuresbut 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 books contributors stress park designs 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, andin an international contextparks and national identity.ContributorsTal AlonMozes, 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 ThysSenocak, Ko University, Istanbul
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