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Future Park invites Australian policy-makers and built environment professionals to consider the future of parks in our cities. It describes the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban parks, and then outlines the threats and challenges facing cities and communities in an age when more than half the world's population are urban dwellers. This book introduces the need to embrace new public park thinking to ensure that benefits continue to be realized.

The first public parks were created on urban "greenfields". Once these designated sites had been used, cities looked towards post-industrial sites, and built parks in places that had suffered from environmental degradation, neglect, abandonment and conflict. With finite stocks of urban post-industrial land now also approaching exhaustion, more ways of making parks are required to create inclusive, accessible and resilient urban places. Future Park presents recent proposals and projects that coalesce around four broad themes - linkages, obsolescences, co-locations and installations - responding to contemporary urban paradoxes, and ensuring parks continue to play a vital role in the lives of our cities.

KEY FEATURES
- Global lessons for park design in Australia
- Ideas-based book with practical application
- Includes spectacular images of public spaces throughout the world
- Imaginative and resourceful responses to real challenges
- Features global lessons with spectacular images from around the world, including, Germany, Korea and the USA.

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• Introduction
• Linkages
• Obsolescences
• Co-locations
• Installations
• Where to from here?
• Endnotes
• Appendix
• Project distribution
• Index
• Places
• Projects
• People

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CHOICE Review

Wright, an award-winning professional landscape architect in Australia, expands her horizons globally, seeking ideas that will continue to influence her work as well as the design of urban parks generally. Wright has a fantastically open mind, and she loves to blur the distinctions between art, architecture, landscape, and nature. She considers relevant but tangential factual influences on ideas for parks and open spaces. In organizing this book, Wright categorizes her ideas into four themes: "Linkages," "Obsolescences," "Co-locations," and "Installations." This last theme really shows the author's excitement and lucidity, coupled with a wonderful sprinkling of irony. The endnotes read like a parallel narrative of facts and concepts related to the main text, but can easily stand on their own. Future Park is amply illustrated with well-chosen photographs and attractive childlike drawings. Wright's obvious attraction to beauty shines throughout this work. --Daniel E. Cleary, York College