{"product_id":"living-cities-matthew-skjonsberg-9783038603634","title":"Living Cities: Three Centuries of Park Systems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA celebration of park systems as central to communities around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The creation of park systems is a historically proven method to stabilize communities and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design--a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good--experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as \"green armatures\" hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving Cities\u003c\/i\u003e offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than thirty park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash's Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago's park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard's plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. This book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice of urban design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Skjonsberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3038603635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783038603634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Park Publishing (WI)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Matthew Skjonsberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46372787912959,"sku":"9783038603634","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cee6b8f9-d3a2-4ae1-b622-1e784f546da0.jpg?v=1732726963","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-cities-matthew-skjonsberg-9783038603634","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}