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Informationen zum Autor ANN FORSYTH, PhD, MPIA, is Dayton Hudson Chair of Urban Design and Director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota. Her publications include Constructing Suburbs: Competing Voices in a Debate Over Urban Growth and Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands. LAURA R. MUSACCHIO, PhD, ASLA, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and is on the research faculty in the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota. She is also a research scientist in urban ecology with the Central Arizona?Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project. Klappentext Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social and natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal and metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size and isolation limits their recreational capacity and makes them ecologically less valuable than large city and county parks. This manual is arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions, contradictions, or tensions in the design of small parks. Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks, natural systems, and human aspects. Also included are useful case studies with alternative design solutions using three different approaches for integrating research findings into small urban park design. Zusammenfassung Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social and natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal and metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size and isolation limits their recreational capacity and makes them ecologically less valuable than large city and county parks. This manual is arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions, contradictions, or tensions in the design of small parks. Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks, natural systems, and human aspects. Also included are useful case studies with alternative design solutions using three different approaches for integrating research findings into small urban park design. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii An Introduction to Small Parks 1 Overview of Park Planning and Design Concerns 10 1: Size, Shape, and Number 13 2: Connections and Edges 23 3: Appearance and Other Sensory Issues 33 4: Naturalness 42 5: Water 48 6: Plants 54 7:Wildlife 60 8: Climate and Air 67 9: Activities and Groups 73 10: Safety 83 1 1 : Management 88 12: Public Involvement 95 SUMMARY Lessons About Small Parks 100 Design Examples 102 EXAMPLE 1 : Taking Advantage of Stormwater Management in a New Suburban Area 104 EXAMPLE 2 : Rehabilitating a Park for Community Revitalization 111 EXAMPLE 3 : Renovating a Suburban Park for Water Quality and Active Recreation 116 EXAMPLE 4 : Redefining the New Urban Town Square 123 EXAMPLE 5: Reusing a Vacant Lot in the Center City 128 Design Development Guidelines 134 Design Development Issues in Brief 148 Key Words 175 References 179 Index 193 ...
