Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393732795)

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.

Author: Alexander Garvin
ISBN-10: 0393732797
ISBN-13: 9780393732795
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.51lbs
Size: 11.29h x 8.24w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 315