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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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Introduction -- I. Keynote addresses -- Building community support for linear parks / Anne Lusk -- The invincible consensus : opportunities for cooperative approaches to protection of linear parks / Jerry L. Rogers -- America's surprising greenways / Noel Grove -- Bikeways as an environmental tool / Boudewijn Bach -- Landscape architects as regional artists / Grant Jones -- Problems and solutions of city street greening in China / Li Rusheng -- II. Historical perspectives -- The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway : the machine in the modern American garden / Elizabeth K. Meyer -- The Merritt Parkway : a straight approach to beauty / Richard L. Kent -- Parkways and expressways of Japan / Yasuo Bansho -- HABS/HAER inroads : recent documentation of canal corridors, park roadways, and urban landscape plans / Sara Amy Leach -- The Hudson River and America's love of natural landscape scenery / William A. Mann -- III. Design and planning -- Integrated recreational open space systems : planning concepts and implementation strategies / Paul M. Rookwood, Wallace Roberts and Todd -- Design studies for the Rockville facility right-of-way / Steven L. Cantor -- A visual quality assessment along the Blue Ridge Parkway for the East Roanoke circumferential environmental impact assessment / Janit L. Potter -- Desert Greenway : Kuwait's waterfront park / John W. Bright -- The greenway for tomorrow : three case studies / Charles Birnbaum -- The Uncompahgre River Valley : a recreation master plan / Lois A. Brink and Ann Skartvert -- Battle Creek's linear park / Eric W. Lyons, O'Boyle, Cowell, Blalock and Associates -- The Davis Greenway : a case study of a diversified system of open space, trails, and wildlife habitat for the city of Davis, California / Stanton Jones and Mark Francis -- Suburban parkway development in Waukesha County, Wisconsin : a Midwestern case study / Paul E. Skidmore, Foth, Van Dyke and Associates -- Texas urban waterways : lessons in linear park planning / Susanne Christian Sweek -- IV. Environmental considerations -- Greenways : recreation resource versus land use ethic? / Charles A. Fink -- The role of parkways in barrier beach preservation : a study of contrasts on Long Island, New York / John A. Black -- Bacterial bioassay of pesticides contaminating parkways, greenways, and riverways from nonpoint sources / Hao Xu and Karl Schurr -- Designing with the whole life community in mind / Marnie Muller -- Bacterial populations elevated by stream modification projects / Arthur Bender and Karl Schurr -- Multiobjective management of river corridors : a floodplain management perspective / James M. Wright -- V. Citizen involvement -- Grassroots protection of river and trail corridors : a discussion from experience / Lorah P. Hopkins -- River conservation from the bottom up : an Atlantic regional approach / Elliott Gimble -- Park watch : enlisting citizen support to protect parkway values / James E. Fox -- Vigilantes, the Neuse, and Sure Salvation : evolving advocacy for greenways / William L. Flournoy Jr. -- VI. Management -- Image-capture computer technology and aesthetic regulation in rural riverway planning and management / Richard E. Chenoweth -- The abandoned mines of the New River Gorge : health and safety hazards and important cultural resources / Donald Armstrong and Charles Yuill -- Greenways : cornucopia of opportunities / Kristina Reichenbach -- Visibility description, visual analysis, and land use control along rural scenic byways : a case study in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia / William E. Shepherd -- Exciting liaisons : cross-fertilization among the disciplines leads to new solutions for greenways / Robert M. Searns -- Appendix : additional conference presentations |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Parkways -- United States -- Design and construction -- Congresses
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Greenways -- United States -- Design and construction -- Congresses
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Park districts -- United States -- Design and construction -- Congresses
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Parkways -- Design and construction
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bousquet, Woodward S. (Woodward Scott), 1954- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781469642116 |
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1469642115 |
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