Urban green innovative parks for resurgent cities - Harnik, Peter (Island Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
"The book offers many practical solutions, from reusing the land under defunct factories to sharing schoolyards, from building trails on abandoned tracks to planting community gardens, from decking parks over highways to allowing more activities in cemeteries, from eliminating parking lots to uncovering buried streams, and more. No strategy alone is perfect, and each has its own set of realities. But collectively they suggest a path toward making modern cities more beautiful, more sociable, more fun, more ecologically sound, and more successful."--Publisher's description
Introduction -- How much parkland should a city have? -- The different kinds of parks and their uses -- Is it acres, facilities, or distance? -- Parks and their competition -- Neighborhoods are not all created equal -- It's not how much but who and why -- A process rather than a standard -- Stop, look, and listen -- Analyze and prioritize -- Don't forget money and time -- Buying it -- Utilizing urban redevelopment -- Community gardens -- Old landfills -- Wetlands and stormwater storage ponds -- Rail trails -- Rooftops -- Sharing schoolyards -- Covering reservoirs -- River and stream corridors -- Cemeteries -- Boulevards and parkways -- Decking highways -- Closing streets and roads -- Removing parking -- Adding hours rather than acres -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Population density, largest cities -- Appendix 2: Acres of parkland per 1,000 persons, largest cities -- Appendix 3: Parkland as a percent of city area, largest cities -- Appendix 4: Spending per resident on parks and recreation, largest cities