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2016
This paper explores the question of how urban parks function as urban icons. It examines Bicentennial Park in Homebush Bay, 12 km west of the Sydney Central Business District (CBD) as a case study. Bicentennial Park was planned and designed between 1983 and 1988, a time when Australia, and its cities in particular, grappled with tensions between ...
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This paper explores the question of how urban parks function as urban icons. It examines Bicentennial Park in Homebush Bay, 12 km west of the Sydney Central Business District (CBD) as a case study. Bicentennial Park was planned and designed between 1983 and 1988, a time when Australia, and its cities in particular, grappled with tensions between ...
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Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2014
Most U.S. cities specify minimum parking requirements in local zoning codes, even in areas served by a variety of travel options. Little work has been done to understand how aggregate parking supplies compare with requirements in urban areas or to evaluate the potential impacts of parking requirements met in such places.
Christopher McCahill +3 more
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Most U.S. cities specify minimum parking requirements in local zoning codes, even in areas served by a variety of travel options. Little work has been done to understand how aggregate parking supplies compare with requirements in urban areas or to evaluate the potential impacts of parking requirements met in such places.
Christopher McCahill +3 more
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Urban Park Concept and an Urban Park Sample for Konya
2004Bu araştırmada, Park kavramı ve kent parklarının genel özellikleri incelenerek, kent insanına rekreasyonel ve sosyo-kültürel amaçlı kullanım olanakları sunmak üzere, peyzaj mimarlığı ilkeleri doğrultusunda işlevsel ve estetik değer taşıyan modern bir kent parkı tasarımı, Konya Kenti örneğinde ortaya konulmuştur. Toplam 468 da alana sahip Konya Selçuklu
POLAT, Ahmet Tuğrul, ÖNDER, Serpil
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Landscape and Urban Planning, 1988
Abstract One reason why urban parks and open spaces are subject to development pressure is that planners and researchers have been unable to articulate their value in economic terms. Three valuation techniques — each with its own strengths and weaknesses — have been applied to urban parks.
MORE, TA, STEVENS, T, Allen, PG
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Abstract One reason why urban parks and open spaces are subject to development pressure is that planners and researchers have been unable to articulate their value in economic terms. Three valuation techniques — each with its own strengths and weaknesses — have been applied to urban parks.
MORE, TA, STEVENS, T, Allen, PG
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, 2012 At Ifpra’s World Congress in Hong Kong, the decision was taken to set up a new Scientific Task Force (STF). One of the main activities of this Task Force is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge on different aspects of parks. A major challenge is of course to find scientific proof for the benefits provided by urban parks, benefits that we often take ...
Annerstedt, Matilda +3 more
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1980
American urban parks were a nineteenth-century attempt to right the imbalances of industrialization and urbanization. Unlike their European predecessors, American public parks have been intimately linked with urban problems. Park advocates have offered various types and styles of parks at different times as ways to solve those social difficulties and ...
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American urban parks were a nineteenth-century attempt to right the imbalances of industrialization and urbanization. Unlike their European predecessors, American public parks have been intimately linked with urban problems. Park advocates have offered various types and styles of parks at different times as ways to solve those social difficulties and ...
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Journal of Urban Design, 2004
This study seeks to develop an understanding of the relationship between the design of urban parks and addiction in Tehran. The aim of the study is to recognize the role of design in the behavioural patterns of park users, especially the addicts, and to propose design patterns to improve the physical quality of parks.
Behnaz Aminzadeh, Dokhi Afshar
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This study seeks to develop an understanding of the relationship between the design of urban parks and addiction in Tehran. The aim of the study is to recognize the role of design in the behavioural patterns of park users, especially the addicts, and to propose design patterns to improve the physical quality of parks.
Behnaz Aminzadeh, Dokhi Afshar
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2015
Abstract The creation and evolution of urban parks is in some ways a familiar story, especially given the attention that Frederick Law Olmsted’s work has commanded since the early 1970s. Following the success of Central Park, cities across the United States began building parks to meet the recreational needs of residents, and during ...
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Abstract The creation and evolution of urban parks is in some ways a familiar story, especially given the attention that Frederick Law Olmsted’s work has commanded since the early 1970s. Following the success of Central Park, cities across the United States began building parks to meet the recreational needs of residents, and during ...
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Annals of Leisure Research, 2006
AbstractUrban parks are a significant feature of the urban environment and constitute a significant budget commitment on the part of local councils and some state governments, but they are relatively neglected, and often ignored, in mainstream leisure studies.
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AbstractUrban parks are a significant feature of the urban environment and constitute a significant budget commitment on the part of local councils and some state governments, but they are relatively neglected, and often ignored, in mainstream leisure studies.
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