“It was obvious from the moment Covid happened that parks were assuming more importance,” architectural historian Victoria Newhouse tells RECORD. After a tumultuous year, spent mostly indoors and isolated, Parks of the 21st Century is just the tonic we need to remind ourselves of the power of renewing and reclaiming public spaces. In the lovely 356-page anthology out this month from Rizzoli ($75) by Newhouse and landscape architect Alex Pisha, the authors illustrate various examples of landscape urbanism across the globe through detailed histories, full-page photos, and site maps of 52 recently created parks. (She and Pisha visited all the sites during a five-year period, pre-Covid.)
Parks of the 21st Century: Reinvented Landscapes, Reclaimed Spaces, by Victoria Newhouse with Alex Pisha. Click to enlarge.
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