Parks for Profit Selling Nature in the City

Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0231194048 | 254 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborhood anchors, with a host of environmental and community benefits. Yet there are clear economic motives as well―successful parks have helped generate billions of dollars of city tax revenues and real estate development.