The future of public parks in Europe; the role of landscape architecture in design and research
2. Public parks in Europe; use, performance and design
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public parks, design, Europe, historyAbstract
This article is based on a presentation at a conference on urban parks organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Landscape Architecture of Corvinus University of Budapest in 2013. It’s the second part of a series of three articles that gives a broad overview of the design of urban public parks in a European context. This article focuses on use, performance and design of public parks in Europe, from the origins of public parks in the 18th century. The variety of use starts from the issue of health, at first technical in the form of sanitation services and later on physical exercise and the outdoors. After WWII public parks become 'public green space' with a diversity of functions, forms and distribution in the urban landscape. The recent rise of the service economies in Europe has brought new roles and uses to public space in general and to public parks in particular. The relation between research and design is a key element. ?ore research is needed especially for use and performance in the form of evidence-based research and post-occupancy evaluation.
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