Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities

Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/29/2010
ISBN: 9780393732795
Pages: 224
Weight: 2.51lbs
Size: 11.29h x 8.24w x 0.92d

Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 315