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Playground Project by Gabriela Burkhalter (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPARK Books

ISBN-103038603503

ISBN-139783038603504

eBay Product ID (ePID)2333989862

Product Key Features

Number of Pages376 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePlayground Project

SubjectUrban & Land Use Planning, History / Contemporary (1945-), General

Publication Year2024

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

AuthorGabriela Burkhalter

Subject AreaArchitecture, Sports & Recreation

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight0.1 Oz

Item Length11.7 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal796.068

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisAn expanded edition of this contemporary classic to reinspire contemporary playground design. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the open-air playground was a social laboratory. Innovative, wacky, and educational playground designs emerged in European and American cities, as well as elsewhere around the world. Artists, landscape designers, architects, and activists sought to provide children with the best possible place to play, while also reimagining cities and communities as a whole. First published in 2018, The Playground Project instantly became a classic. This expanded new edition revives the wealth of ideas of that period to inspire us today. It offers many previously unpublished images, numerous new portraits--especially of female protagonists of the time--as well as findings from the latest research on playground design. An incisive introductory essay places the playground at the intersections of education, architecture, urban politics, design history, and leisure policy. A detailed focus is placed on the forgotten history of playgrounds in the former German Democratic Republic. Two young researchers have contributed texts that explore the culture of memory surrounding the Shek Lei Playground in Hong Kong, and the role that playgrounds played in the process of state-building in Mexico. This book is a tribute to play in public spaces and a rich source for architects, designers, students, children, and political actors., Between 1930 and 1990 playgrounds developed into a creative laboratory. Cities, not only of industrialised nations but around the world, became hubs for innovative, eccentric, and exciting projects. Artists, landscape architects, designers, and activists sought to provide children with the best-possible places for play - and opened up new ways of thinking about community and the city. The Playground Project presents the first-ever comprehensive overview of this history and is now available in its third, fully revised and expanded edition. In addition to numerous previously unpublished images, this definitive work features initiatives such as Aktion Samtal in Stockholm, Abenteuerspielplatz Märkisches Viertel in Berlin, Kounkuey Design Initiative in Kenya, Spielwagen Berlin, and Urban Deadline in New York. It also pays tribute to central figures such as Lady Allen of Hurtwood, Riccardo Dalisi, Aldo van Eyck, Ute Fritzsch, Renate Müller, Isamu Noguchi, Niki de Saint Phalle, and many more. Following a foreword by Japanese architect Mitsuru Senda, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of the modern playground, situating it at the intersection of education, architecture, urbanism, design, and recreational policies. A special focus of this third edition is on the forgotten history of the playground in the former GDR, the culture of memory surrounding Shek Lei Playground in Hong Kong, and the state-building significance of playgrounds in Mexico.

LC Classification NumberGV423