Shelby Farms Park: Elevating a City: The Improbable Journey of America’s Great 21st Century Urban Park
The Definitive Book About: The unlikely story of how a sprawling footprint of a former prison became and a leading American park.At 4500 acres, the...
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The Definitive Book About: The unlikely story of how a sprawling footprint of a former prison became and a leading American park.
At 4500 acres, the largest US urban park, more than five-times the size of New York's Central Park.
The vision, process, benchmarks and priorities that led to the building of a great park and how people with vision can change a community.
The demands from the public to protect the land for future generations.
Authored by Tom Jones with contributions by nationally known park experts and Shelby Farms Park leaders including James Corner, Alex Garvin, Peter Harnik and Laura Morris.
Photography By Justin Fox Burks and Murray Riss.
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- ISBN10:0997355921
- ISBN13:9780997355925
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