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2015

PRESENT

THE 21ST CENTURY GREEN SPACEDEFINED BY INCREASING HYBRIDIZATION OF ACCESSIBILITY AND COLLAGE OF AMENITY OR

PROGRAM. FURTHER DEMOCRATIC DISTRIBUTION CREATING A PATCHWORK OF LEISURE

POCKETS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT. MORE SOCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS

- THE PARK IS AS MUCH A GREEN RECLAMATION ZONE OR GARDEN AS A LEISURE VENUE.

BLOOMINGDALE TRAIL (606), CHICAGOMUNICIPALLY-OWNED, PUBLIC GREENWAY

GREEN WALL

VERTICAL GARDEN

INDOOR/OUTDOOR

DECOR OR FACADE

URBAN FARM

GROWING COLLECTIVE PARTIC

IN SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES

CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTATION

CONVERSION OF AN OLD

ELEVATED RAILROAD INTO A

URBAN GREENWAY.

A LINEAR PARK OR “CORRID

CONNECTING SEPARATE

NEIGHBORHOODS.

GREEN ROOF

EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING ROOF.

DOUBLES AS MEANS OF DRAINAGE IN

SOME CASES


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2012-2014EMERGENCE OF THE

“SHARE ECONOMY”:

UBER, AIRBNB, ETC.

DENVER CITY LOOPPORT URBANISM, CORPORATE INTEREST IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

2007“GREAT RECESSION”

2001“WAR ON TERROR”

COMPETITION ENTRY TO

REVITALIZE AN AGING PAR

IN ONE OF DENVER’S

LARGEST PUBLIC

ATTRACTIONS

A PARK EMPHASIZINGPROGRAM: SPECIFIC

(GREATER ABILITY TO

TARGET CONSUMER

DEMANDS) AND CREATIVE

ACTIVITIES (REQUIRING

PHYSICAL OR MENTAL

SKILL), AND EXPERIENCE

2009 THE HIGH LINE, NEW YORK CITYMUNICIPALLY-OWNED, PUBLIC GREENWAY A REVITALIZATION AND

RE-PURPOSING OF EXISTIN

INFRASTRUCTURE, THE HIG

STILL RETAINS ITS UTILITY A

TRAVERSABLE MEANS OF G

FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTH

WHILE ADDRESSING THE IS

SUSTAINABILITY AND PROVI

PUBLIC SPACE FOR ACTIVIT

A LINEAR PARK OR “CORRI

CONNECTING SEPARATE

NEIGHBORHOODS - GREAT

ACCESSIBILITY.


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1908FIRST MODEL-T

PRODUCED

1929GREAT DEPRESSION

1939-1945WORLD WAR II

1947COLD WAR BEGINS

1914-1918WORLD WAR I

A LARGE URBAN PARK

AN EMPHASIS ON A

DIVERSITY OF ACTIVIT

ACCESSIBLE IN THE CCENTER.

BURLE MARX ONCE S

“THE LARGER AND M

OPEN A PROJECT, TH

HE LIKED IT, BECAUS

COULD BE ENJOYED

SOCIAL STRATA.

TRANSITION FROM MILITARY-RELIGIOUS COMPLEX

TO MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX... ?

1991RAPID GROWTH OF

INTERNET / INFORMATION

AGE / COLD WAR ENDS

1980INCREASING EMPHASIS

ON “SUSTAINABILITY”

LANDSCHAFTSPARK DUISBURG-NORD, GERMANYLATZ + PARTNER, MUNICIPALLY-OWNED

1954 IBIRAPUERA PARK, BRAZILMUNICIPALLY-OWNED, ROBERTO BURLE MARX

RE-USE OF A RETIRED

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AS

EDUCATIVE MEMORIAL TO

INDUSTRIAL PAST.

AN EXAMPLE OF THE PAR

EVOLVING TO MEET SPECSOCIOCULTURAL NEEDS

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A

PRE-EXISTING ENVIRONM


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~1870SECOND INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION +EMERGENCE OF

MODERNISM

1898

WITH THE CITY BECOMING

SYNONYMOUS WITH THE

OF INDUSTRIAL LIFE, THE

GARDEN CITY WOULD OF

THE BEST OF BOTH MUNI

SERVICES AND A CLEANE

COUNTRY ENVIRONMENT

THE PARK AND CITY BECO

ONE AND THE SAME FOR

BENEFIT OF ALL CITIZENS

PERHAPS FORESHADOW

THE FUTURE OF URBAN P

DEVELOPMENT.

THE GARDEN CITYEBENEZER HOWARD’S GARDEN CITY / TOWN-COUNTRY MAGNET


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BOSTON COMMONMUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP

1830

DATING FROM 1634, THE

COMMON’S PURPOSE C

OVER THE YEARS, NOTA

SERVING AS A GRAZING

FOR COWS AT ONE POIN

IN 1830, IT’S SERVICE AS

PASTURE ENDED AND W

OPENED TO THE PUBLICURBAN CLOISTER. THE

POPULACE LIVES AND W

ON THE PERIPHERY, BU

PARK IS NO LONGER A S

DIVIDE.

THE LAND WAS INITIALLY

OCCUPIED BY FREE

AFRICAN-AMERICANS A

IMMIGRANTS WHO NOT

RAISED LIVESTOCK BUT

CHURCHES AND CEMET

AS THE CITY EXPANDEDNORTHWARD PEOPLE B

DRAWN TO THE EXISTIN

SPACES.

PARK SERVING AS REFU

FROM THE NOISE AND

POLLUTION OF THE CITY

ISOLATED IN ITS EXPAN

CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITYFREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP

1857


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VAUXHALL GARDENS, LONDONMUNICIPALLY-OWNED, PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT VENUE

CHISWICK HOUSE GARDENS, LONDONWILLIAM KENT, PRIVATELY-OWNED ESTATE

~1760INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

MID-ENLIGHTENMENT

1785

LOCATED ON THE PERIPHERY O

LONDON AS APUBLIC LESIURE

VENTURE.

OFFICIALLY A “GARDEN”, IT CO

BE MORE ACCURATELY DESCRI

AS A PUBLIC AMENTIY

INCORPORATING ELEMENTS OF

THE FORMAL GARDEN AS WELL

MORE URBAN TYPES OF

ENTERTAINMENT; I.E. VENUES F

THEATRE AND THE ARTS. A

PRECEDENT TO THE MODERN

PARK, IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY

LANDSCAPE FORMALITY.

THE QUINTESSENTIAL ENGLISH

PICTURESQUE LANDSCAPE GAR

FEATURING ELEMENTS OF THE

FRENCH FORMAL GARDEN AND

“NATURAL” RE-CREATIONS - AN

IDEALIZATION OF NATURE.

AN ATTEMPTED DEPARTURE FRARTIFICIAL AESTHETIC IN FAVO

“NATURAL” ENVIRONMENT -

AVAILABLE FOR THE PRIVATE

WEALTHY INDIVIDUAL.

THE GARDEN AS PRECEDENT TO THE COMMON OR PARK

1729


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SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, ENGLAND, 1258CLERICAL LEADERSHIP

GARDENS OF VERSAILLES, FRANCEPLEASURE GARDENS BUILT FOR LOUIX XIV

NANZEN-JI TEMPLE, JAPAN

1096-1487CRUSADES

~1400-1600ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

1668

THE CLOISTER, OR “ENCLOSUR

INDICATION OF A MONASTIC

FOUNDATION (ABBEY). IT

SEPARATED MONKS FROM SERF

AND WORKMEN, WHOSE LIVES A

WORK TOOK PLACE IN THE

CLOISTER’S PERIMETER.

THE GARDEN IS EXCLUSIVE -

LIMITED TO THE PRIVILEGED

RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND A

SPATIAL BUFFER BETWEEN SOC

CLASSES.

THE FRENCH FORMAL

GARDEN, PERHAPS GIVING

NEW MEANING TO THE TERM

“GARDEN”. VAST, SCULPTED,

RESERVED FOR WEALTHY

NOBILITY.

THE GARDEN REMAINSHIGHLY PRIVATIZED IN THE

HANDS OF THE RULING FEW.

SHINTO TEMPLE TAKING

GREAT CARE TO PRESERVE

MUCH OF THE EXISTING

LANDSCAPE.

GARDEN BECOMES INTEGRAL

TO THE ARCHITECTURE.

1680


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EMERGENCE OF THE ALCAZAR ON IBERIAN PENINSULAUMAYYAD CALIPHATE, FORTIFICATIONS / CASTLES, RELIGIOUS-MILITARISTIC LEADERSHIP

~600 BC &

PRIORBIBLICAL PERIOD

~700 AD

HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON

KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR II A MYTHICAL MOUNTAIN OF STEPPED

GARDENS - A POSSIBLE PRECEDENT

THAT WOULD LATER MOTIVATE OR

INFORM THE DESIGN OF CASTLE

GARDENS.

ALLEGEDLY BUILT AS A REMINDER O

THE HILLS AND VALLEYS OF QUEEN

AMYTIS’ HOME.

THE MILITARY AND RELIGIOUS

INSTITUTIONS WERE LINKED AND TH

FORTIFICATION / CASTLE WAS THE

EXPRESSION OF THIS CONNECTION.

THE ENCLOSED GARDEN SERVED

PRIMARILY AS A MEANS OF REPOSE

OFTEN IN THE FORM OF WALKING

MEDITATION.

GARDENS OF ANTIQUITY

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