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Chargement... Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscapepar Sally A. Kitt Chappell
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Chicago has changed a lot in the last decade. When I worked there at the end of the 90s and beginning of the 2000s, there was a good deal of frustration, born from too many ugly buildings and all of the good commissions going to foreign offices, among other things. Things changed for the better pretty quickly in the middle of the last decade, thanks to firms like Studio Gang Architects, which happens to be responsible for transforming the landscape in the foreground of this book's cover photo. It is Lincoln Park Zoo's South Pond, its edges now more "natural" and traversed by walkways, highlighted by a small wooden pavilion. This serves as an example of how Chicago's blossoming architecture scene has impacted landscapes as well as buildings, but also how progress can make even the best guidebook obsolete soon after it comes out (the pond's transformation was completed in 2010, three years after the book was published). Nevertheless, this is an excellent guide to the city's many parks, urban plazas, gardens and boulevards, both old and new. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Chicago--whose motto is "City in a Garden"--is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In Chicago's Urban Nature, Sally A. Kitt Chappell provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the city's stunning blend of nature and architecture. At the heart of this new urban concept is the idea of connection, bringing buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure into an energetic harmony. With Chicago's Urban Nature in hand, you'll see those connections woven through the fabric of the city. Chappell provides new insights into such historic Chicago sites as Jens Jensen's Garfield Park Conservatory, Frederick Law Olmsted's Jackson Park, and Alfred Caldwell's Lily Pond, then takes us to the innovative contemporary green spaces they influenced, from City Hall's rooftop garden to the North Lawndale Green Youth Farm to Chicago's heralded new Millennium Park. These beautiful green spaces, with their unprecedented melding of art, architecture, and ecology, have become far more than places of escape for Chicagoans--they're now fully integrated into the urban scene, an essential part of the cultural life of the modern city. Packed with maps and recommended tours, and bursting with splendid photos, this is an essential guidebook for day-trippers, lifelong Chicago residents, and professionals in landscape architecture, urbanism, and design. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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