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Anatomy of a Park: The Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design

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This is a good book for city planners who don't know a lot about park planning, but need to in order to develop well-used parks. Easy reading.

This book is decent was expecting a little more content, this book was required for a 300 level college class and the book is more for highschool reading or freshmen in college.

This is a carefully crafted update of a classic primer that is essential reading for anyone engaged in park design or administration. The book would be especially useful to the new park commissioner who is looking for ways to add value to his/her park system through good design. The text is highly readable and is augmented by charming illustrations that makes for enjoyable reading of sometimes otherwise dull technical material.

Jerrold Soesbe, FASLA

THIS WAS MY FIRTS EXPERIENCE WHIT AMAZON AND IT WAS GREAT, EVERYTHING IN ORDER AND IN TIME, GREAT BOOK AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITIONS..

THANK YOU!!!

This book may be a nice introduction for someone with no design background, but is not appropriate for landscape architects or site planners. The book's content primarily focuses on siting a park's programmatic elements for maximum engagement between users. It doesn't discuss commonly seen typologies or offer any interesting design solutions. Instead, it covers topics like where an amphitheater should be located in relation to a park's paths and roads (and, really? an amphitheater? So corny.). Anyone with experience in site design will likely find the concepts too basic and, even, unsophisticated.