书名：Parks of the 21st Century: Reinvented Landscapes, Reclaimed Territories
定价：485.0
ISBN：9780847870622
作者：Victoria Newhouse
版次：1
出版时间：2021-09

内容提要：

书名：Parks of the 21st Century: Reinvented Landscapes, Reclaimed Territories/21世纪的公园：翻新的景观，改造的土地
作者：Victoria Newhouse

出版：Rizzoli，2021
装帧：精装，356页
语种：英文
尺寸：21.5*27.9 cm

 

 

 

We are in the midst of a worldwide golden age of park creation, and featured here are powerfully telling examples at the forefront of this renaissance.

 

 

Parks are essential to our well-being; this has never been clearer than it is today, and a recent surge of park development offers us much to celebrate. Parks of the 21st Century presents 52 parks in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, and China that have turned despoiled and polluted land (including former factories, railroads, and industrial waterfronts) into beneficial landscapes.

 

Landscape architects have been referred to as “the first environmentalists,” and Parks of the 21st Century shows how parks are being designed as proactive, dynamic green spaces. The High Line in New York is an early example of how an obsolete railroad could be transformed. Opened in 2009, it now attracts nearly 8 million visitors a year. In addition to providing public open space, these renewed landscapes offer economic revitalization and large-scale environmental improvement. Among the parks featured in this book are designs by well-known professionals such as James Corner Field Operations, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Kongjian Yu/Turenscape, and Catherine Mosbach.