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10%OFFAlison Bick Hirsch - City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America - 9780816679799 - V9780816679799
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City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America

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Description for City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 105 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; AMV; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.

One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from Ghirardelli Square and Market Street in San Francisco to Lovejoy Fountain Park in Portland and Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis—grew out of a participatory design process that was central to Halprin’s work and is proving ever more relevant to urban design today.

In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets ... Read more

City Choreographer situates Halprin within the larger social, artistic, and environmental ferment of the 1960s and 1970s. In doing so, it demonstrates his profound impact on the shape of landscape architecture and his work’s widening reach into urban and regional development and contemporary concerns of sustainability.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679799
SKU
V9780816679799
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About Alison Bick Hirsch
Alison Bick Hirsch, a landscape and urban designer as well as urban historian and theorist, is assistant professor in landscape architecture at the University of Southern California. She is cofounder and partner of the Foreground design agency, a transdisciplinary practice operating between the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and the visual arts.

Reviews for City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
 "This is an important study of one of the most significant figures in 20th century landscape architecture and urban design. Alison Bick Hirsch has written the first significant critical assessment of several of Lawrence Halprin's most iconic works nad the historically important and controversial Take Part workshops. With access to his collected papers and both Halprin prior to his death ... Read more

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