Urban green : innovative parks for resurgent cities / / Peter Harnik

• Autore: Harnik Peter
• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 712/.50973
• Soggetto topico: Urban parks - United States; City planning - United States; Open spaces - United States; Urban renewal - United States; Urban landscape architecture - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Of Cities and Parks""; ""Chapter 1: How Much Parkland Should a City Have?""; ""Chapter 2: The Different Kinds of Parks and Their Uses""; ""Chapter 3: Is It Acres, Facilities, or Distance?""; ""Chapter 4: Parks and Their Competition""; ""Chapter 5: Neighborhoods Are Not All Created Equal""; ""Chapter 6: It's Not How Much but Who and Why""; ""Chapter 7: A Process Rather than a Standard""; ""Chapter 8: Stop, Look, and Listen"" ; ""Chapter 9: Analyze and Prioritize""""Chapter 10: Don't Forget Money and Time""; ""Part II: Finding Park Space in the City""; ""Chapter 11: Buying It""; ""Chapter 12: Utilizing Urban Redevelopment""; ""Chapter 13: Community Gardens""; ""Chapter 14: Old Landfills""; ""Chapter 15: Wetlands and Stormwater Storage Ponds""; ""Chapter 16: Rail Trails""; ""Chapter 17: Rooftops""; ""Chapter 18: Sharing Schoolyards""; ""Chapter 19: Covering Reservoirs""; ""Chapter 20: River and Stream Corridors""; ""Chapter 21: Cemeteries""; ""Chapter 22: Boulevards and Parkways""; ""Chapter 23: Decking Highways"" ; ""Chapter 24: Closing Streets and Roads""""Chapter 25: Removing Parking""; ""Chapter 26: Adding Hours Rather than Acres""; ""Conclusion""; ""Tables""; ""Table 1.1: That's Quite a Spread You've Got! (Acres of Parkland per 1,000 Persons)""; ""Table 1.2: Howdy Neighbor! (Persons per Acre of Parkland)""; ""Table 1.3: Parks for Daytimers, Too? (Commuters and Population Change)""; ""Table 1.4: Parkland for People (Acres per 1,000 People)""; ""Table 3.1: A Park Too Far? (Maximum Distance Goals)""; ""Table 7.1: How Green is My City? (Parkland as Percentage of City)"" ; ""Table 11.1: The Cost of Buying Parkland""""Table 11.2: Developer Exactions""; ""Table 12.1: Second Time Around (Redevelopment Authority Parks)""; ""Table 14.1: Garbage In, Park Out (Landfill Parks)""; ""Table 16.1: Goodbye Train, Hello Trail (Rail Trails)""; ""Table 22.1:""Boulevardozing"" Highways (Expressway to Park Conversions)""; ""Table 23.1: Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Parks Constructed Over Highways)""; ""Table 24.1: Do Not Enter (Park Roads Closed to Autos)""; ""Table 25.1: Pavement in Paradise (Parking Spaces in Parks)"" ; ""Table 25.2: Living on the Edge (Population Density around Parks)""""Recommended Reading""; ""Appendix 1: Population Density, Largest Cities""; ""Appendix 2: Acres of Parkland per 1,000 Persons, Largest Cities""; ""Appendix 3: Parkland as a Percent of City Area, Largest Cities""; ""Appendix 4: Spending per Resident on Parks and Recreation, Largest Cities""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for "built out" cities to add much-needed parkland. After first exploring the question of why urban parks are needed, Peter Harnik looks at how much parkland is truly possible and where specific investment can go. Among the book's many examples and practical solutions are reusing the land from defunct factories to sharing schoolyards, from decking parks over highways to allowing more activities in cemeteries, from eliminating parking lots to uncovering buried streams, and more. While no strategy alone is perfect, and each has its own set of challenges, collectively they suggest a path toward making cities more beautiful, sociable, fun, ecologically sound, and successful.
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban green
• ISBN: 1-59726-812-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828752703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II