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Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with the managing organisations, this book is illustrated throughout with clear plans and photographs- with this new edition featuring full colour throughout. Tate updates his seminal 2001 work with 10 additional parks, including: The High Line in NYC, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. All the previous city parks have also been updated and revised to reflect current usage and management.

This book reflects a belief that well planned, well designed and well managed parks and park systems will continue to make major contributions to the quality of life in an increasingly urbanized world.

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• 1 Paley Park, New York
• 2 Yorkville Park, Toronto
• 3 Freeway Park, Seattle
• 4 Bryant Park, New York
• 5 The High Line, New York
• 6 Parc de Bercy, Paris
• 7 Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
• 8 Parc André-Citroën
• 9 Park Güell, Barcelona
• 10 Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
• 11 St James's Park, London
• 12 Parque de Maria Luisa, Seville
• 13 Luisenpark, Mannheim
• 14 Vondelpark, Amsterdam
• 15 Parc de la Villette
• 16 Birkenhead Park
• 17 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
• 18 Grant Park, Chicago
• 19 The Regent's Park, London
• 20 Stadtpark, Hamburg
• 21 Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
• 22 The Großer Tiergarten, Berlin
• 23 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York
• 24 Central Park, New York
• 25 Stanley Park, Vancouver
• 26 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
• 27 Emerald Necklace, Boston
• 28 Forest Park, St Louis
• 29 Amsterdamse Bos
• 30 Minneapolis Park System

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CHOICE Review

Great City Parks may sound like the title of a coffee-table book, but this volume is of an entirely different kind. Tate, an English landscape architect currently teaching in Canada (Univ. of Manitoba at Winnipeg), has assembled a wealth of material on 20 internationally significant parks in Europe and North America. For each, he provides a detailed history as well as discussion of management, use, and future plans. The text is highly informed, well organized, and filled with useful insights and details. Tate sometimes indulges in critique, but the overall treatment is evenhanded. He manages to probe his case studies in depth while presenting the material concisely. The illustrations are generally of high quality; however, they are not as extensive as the discussion often warrants. This is an extremely useful reference work for landscape architects and planners as well as others with a serious interest in urban parks. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. R. Longstreth George Washington University

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Alan Tate has a degree in Town and Country Planning, an accredited Diploma in Landscape Design from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art. He has over twenty years' professional experience and is a Fellow and Past President of the United Kingdom Landscape Institute. He has been teaching at the University of Manitoba since 1998 where he was promoted to the position of Professor in 2007 and was Head of Department from 2000 to 2005 and from 2011.

Marcella Eaton has a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from the University of Manitoba and a PhD in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art. She has many years of professional experience, largely in Toronto, and has been teaching at the University of Manitoba since 1998. She has been Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Architecture since 2009.