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Best Books About Parks

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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski (Scribner, 1999.)

This richly anecdotal chronicle of the forces and the characters who transformed the American landscape in the 19th century. more info...

Inside City Parks
by Peter Harnik (Trust for Public Land and the Urban Land Institute, .)

Analyzes park systems in the nation's 25 largest cities based on funding, facilities, and amount of land, then looks behind the numbers to the philosophies, politics and practices that shape the park systems. more info...

Private Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience
by Jerold S. Kayden (John Wiley & Sons, 2000.)

The principal research purpose was to evaluate New York City's 39-year pioneering program of using zoning law to encourage the provision of 503 publicly accessible plazas, parks, arcades, atria, and other public spaces at private office and residential towers in the city's densest commercial and residential precincts. more info...

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