This plan contains recommendations for the survival and improvement of the National Park Service and the United States national park system.
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...
Shares inspirational advice on how and why to enhance cities with well-tended gardens, parks, and streets, counseling readers on a range of topics from the maintenance of year-round plantings to advocating for public and private funding.
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National Book Award finalist Elizabeth Partridge reveals the life and work of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, the United States Capitol building's landscape, and more.
Smart, short, and irresistibly illustrated, This Is a Book for People Who Love National Parks is a park-by-park celebration of the American outdoors.
Award-winning author Julie Dunlap brings Olmsted to life in this wonderful biography.
In Parks, People, Preservation, and Public Policy, author Eleanor Boggs Shoemaker examines the York County, Pennsylvania, Parks and Recreation Department and analyzes the underpinnings of its success.
Using the experience of the Parks in Peril program -- a wide-ranging project instituted by The Nature Conservancy and its partner organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean to foster better park management -- this book presents a ...
The original research gathered together in this volume will be of considerable interest to researchers of development studies, political ecology, land rights, and conservation.
Parks, People and Places: Making Parks Accessible to the Community