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Urban Park Evaluation

1978
The primary objective of this study, undertaken at the request of Community Planning Boards of New York City, was to develop recommendations for improving the design of Bryant Park (Figure 45). Originally designed in 1934, the park offered a unique opportunity to assess the relevance of design principles and assumptions from the 1930s in the context of
Anita R. Nager, Wally R. Wentworth
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Parking and Urban Form [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
This article analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis considers three different regimes for provision of parking space: surface parking, underground parking, and structural ...
Jan K. Brueckner, Sofia F. Franco
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Urban Parks

2019
Il saggio esamina gli aspetti innovativi e le problematiche connesse al progetto di parco pubblico nelle New Towns cinesi di ultima generazione. Discute il ruolo centrale del parco pubblico nelle strategie di urbanizzazione rivolte alla sostenibilità e alla consapevolezza per l’ambiente che la Cina sta attuando.
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Urban Park Concept and an Urban Park Sample for Konya

2004
Bu 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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Women in Urban Parks

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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Benefits of urban parks [PDF]

open access: possible, 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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Valuation of urban parks

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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Urban parks and addiction

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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Parks in Urban America

2015
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 the second half of the 19th ...
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The Use of Urban Parks

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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