City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
Author:   Alison Bick Hirsch ,  Alison Bick Hirsch
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 April 2014
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Author:   Alison Bick Hirsch ,  Alison Bick Hirsch
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 3.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9780816679799


ISBN 10:   0816679797
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Scoring the Participatory City 1. The Creative Origins of Larry and Anna HalprinPart I. Built Work2. Framing Civic Rituals: Market Street, Nicollet Mall, Heritage Park Plaza3. Designing with Nature as “Archetypal Precedent”: Portland Open Space Sequence, Seattle Freeway Park, Manhattan Square ParkPart II. Community Workshops4. The Take Part Process: Halprin & Associates in Participatory Design5. Facilitation and/or Manipulation: The Challenges of Taking Part in Fort Worth, Everett, Charlottesville, and Cleveland Conclusion: Choreography and the Contemporary City NotesBibliographyIndex

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This is an important study of one of the most significant figures in 20th century landscape architecture and urban design. Alison Bick Hirsch has written the first significant critical assessment of several of Lawrence Halprin's most iconic works nad the historically important and controversial Take Part workshops. With access to his collected papers and both Halprin prior to his death and his wife, the equally important and innovative modern dancer and choreographer, Anna, Hirsch focuses critical attention upon their collaboration and development on urban 'scores' in the tumultuous era of the 1960s and 70s, as well as their dramatic differences. --Laurie D. Olin, partner, The OLIN Studio


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Alison Bick Hirsch, a landscape and urban designer as well as urban historian and theorist, is assistant professor in landscape architecture at the University of Southern California. She is cofounder and partner of the Foreground design agency, a transdisciplinary practice operating between the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, and the visual arts.

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