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Who, What, Where & hoW around the Parks

public parks

224 pages, hardcover, $59.95,
uSBn-13:978-0-393-73279-5).
the book is a comprehensive study covering public parks
from their history and evolution
to their planning, location, property acquisition, site adaption,
design, development, finance,
stewardship, and governance. it's
illustrated with 300 original color photographs and maps. the
book describes the origins and
emergence of public parks, defining their role and evolution, and
examines their function as essential investments in the well-being

aleXander GarVin is president and
Ceo of aGa public realm Strategists,
a planning and design firm in new York
City. He is adjunct professor of urban
planning and management at Yale university, where he has taught a wide
range of courses for 42 years, including introduction to the Study of the
City, which has remained one of the
most popular courses in Yale College.
this article is excerpted with permission from his just released book,
Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities (norton professional Books,

Both Frederick
Law Olmsted and
Robert Moses
understood that
park development
had to be considered
with an eye to what
would occur over
generations. There
is no better advice
for anyone
considering park
development.

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was also New York City parks
commissioner, he acquired
20,200 acres of parkland , built
15 huge swimming pools, created 658
playgrounds, and added 17 miles of
public beaches to the one mile the city
owned when he came to office.
But the two men were similar in that
neither man developed parks simply by
applying formulas and calculating the
correct answer. Too often, park planners apply formulas to work out how
things ought to be-a technique commonly known as " needs analysis " -and
then shake their heads in dismay when,
invariably, the world doesn't behave as it
should. Olmsted and Moses also shared
a number of development objectives:
providing easy access to any park, endowing it with a discernable, convenient
circulation system, ensuring that there
were popular attractions for park visitors, and developing facilities that would
be sustainable for generations. Both understood that park development had to
be considered with an eye to what would
occur over generations. There is no better advice for anyone considering park
development.
The background and decision-making differences between these two planners were many, however. Olmsted, who



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