W. W. Norton & Company Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communites (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks) (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design, and Engineering)

Huge budgets are spent on restoring and creating new parks. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them. The book includes everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials and citizen activists need to know about the critical role of public parks.