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Informationen zum Autor Karen M'Closkey teaches landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a cofounder of PEG office of landscape + architecture, an award-winning design and research practice based in Philadelphia. Klappentext The work of landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates is globally renowned, from the 21st Century Waterfront in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to London's 2012 Olympic Park. Founded by George Hargreaves in 1983, this team of designers has transformed numerous abandoned sites into topographically and functionally diverse landscapes. Hargreaves Associates' body of work reflects the socioeconomic and legislative changes that have impacted landscape architecture over the past three decades, particularly the availability of former industrial sites and their subsequent redevelopment into parks. The firm's longstanding interest in such projects brings it into frequent contact with the communities and local authorities who use and live in these built environments, which tend to be contested grounds owing to the conflicting claims of the populations and municipalities that use and manage them. As microcosms of contemporary political, social, and economic terrains, these designed spaces signify larger issues in urban redevelopment and landscape design. The first scholarly examination of the firm's philosophy and body of work, Unearthed uses Hargreaves Associates' portfolio to illustrate the key challenges and opportunities of designing today's public spaces. Illustrated with more than one hundred and fifty color and black-and-white images, this study explores the methods behind canonical Hargreaves Associates sites, such as San Francisco's Crissy Field, Sydney Olympic Park, and the Louisville Waterfront Park. M'Closkey outlines how Hargreaves and his longtime associate Mary Margaret Jones approach the design of public places-conceptually, materially, and formally-on sites that require significant remaking in order to support a greater range of ecological and social needs. Zusammenfassung Unearthed examines how one of America's most significant landscape architecture firms approaches the redesign of public places to meet a range of ecological and social needs. With more than one hundred and fifty color and black-and-white images! this study uncovers the methods behind many canonical works of international landscape design. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Geographies —Crissy Field, San Francisco, California —21st Century Waterfront and Renaissance Parks, Chattanooga, Tennessee —Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles, California Chapter 2. Techniques —Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales, Australia —Guadalupe River Park, San Jose, California —Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Facility and Northern Mitigation Area, Snohomish County, Washington Chapter 3. Effects —Louisville Waterfront Park, Louisville, Kentucky —University of Cincinnati Master Plan, Cincinnati, Ohio —William J. Clinton Presidential Center Park, Little Rock, Arkansas Afterword Project Teams for Cited Projects Notes Index Acknowledgments ...
