Planning Parks for People
- ISBN-10
- 0910251959
- ISBN-13
- 9780910251952
- Category
- Business & Economics / Industries / Park & Recreation Management
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Venture Pub.
- Authors
- John T. Hultsman, Richard L. Cottrell, Wendy Zales Hultsman
Description
Planning Parks for People has been extensively upgraded, revised, and expanded from its original 1987 edition. This second edition continues to enlighten and inform readers about what works and what doesn't in the design of today's parks, and does so with courage and humor. With more than 600 photographs and illustrations, this book offers examples of the good and the bad in park design (including mistakes the authors made in the past), as well as axioms, guidelines, and specific illustrations of what to do and what not to do. Newly added sections include Native American parks, group day use, accessibility, visitor safety, maintenance, outdoor recreation research, carrying capacity, customer service, and even a section on Heroes and Villains.
The text has been written primarily in conversational English, rather than in a scholarly, scientific style. This book provides the reader with techniques for successfully designing parks and for changing poor design in existing parks.
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