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NAJIA ALI URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
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Design Moves: 1 Increase property frontage along park 2 Provide edge definition with improved street framework 3 Increase neighborhood circulation around, through, and across Freedom Park 4 Propose a conceptual programmatic scheme to address the role of the park in neighborhood 32,0000 linear feet of street added to right - of - way 195 new lots with street and park frontage
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FREEDOM PARK RE-VISIONED AS FIVE HISTORICAL PARK IDEALS ADAPTED FROM GALEN CRANZ THE POLITICS OF PARK DESIGN: THE HISTORY OF URBAN PARKS IN AMERICA
PLEASURE GROUND (1850 – 1900) THEMES: SPATIAL SEQUENCE; PASSIVE RECREATION; OVERALL COMPOSTITION 1 PICTURESQUE LANDSCAPE 2 CURVILINEAR PATHS 3 WATER FEATURES 4 VISTAS 5 MONUMENTAL GATES REFORM PARK (1900 – 1930) THEMES: SOCIALIZATION OF BOURGEOIS VALUES’ TRANSENDTALISM; SEPARATION BY AGE AND SEX; INTERACTIVE LANDSCAPE; SYMMETRICAL/FORMAL LAYOUT; ORGANIZED PLAY 1 PLAYGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN 2 PLAYING COURTS 3 BATHING POOLS 4 VEGETABLE GARDENS 5 FIELD HOUSES/INDOOR GYMNASIUMS
Pleasure Park - Jackson Park, Chicago
RECREATION FACILITIES (1930 – 1965) THEMES: BUREAUCRACY; EFFICIENCY; UTILITY; STANDARDIZATION; PARKS AS SERVICE DESIGN MOVES: 1 COMMUNITY CENTERS 2 BROKEN UP 3 FACILITIES SITED BASED ON STANDARDS 4 LITTLE EMPHASIS ON LAYOUT
Reform Park - Golden Gate Park, SF
Open Spaces – Paley Park NY OPEN SPACE (1965 and After) THEMES: FLEXIBILITY; FLUIDITY; INTEGRATION; UNSTRUCTURED SPACE 1 EDGE AMBIGUITY 2 UNPROGRAMMED SPACES 3 EVENT SPACES 4 INTEGRATED WITH CITY 5 PRESERVATION
Recreation Park – Brady Park NY
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Proposed Park Program
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