The Good Life: New Public Spaces For Recreation explores how architects, designers, landscape architects, and artists are reinventing urban public spaces to meet the needs of 21st-century recreation. Chosen for their innovative solutions and high-quality designs, the seventy projects provide a cross-section of some of the most interesting new spaces for leisure around the world.

The Good Life: New Public Spaces For Recreation explores how architects, designers, landscape architects, and artists are reinventing urban public spaces to meet the needs of 21st-century recreation. Chosen for their innovative solutions and high-quality designs, the seventy projects provide a cross-section of some of the most interesting new spaces for leisure around the world.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Please Walk on the Grass:

Recreation and Play

in the Contemporary City

Zoe Ryan

The Cultured City

The 24-Hour City

The Fun City

The Connected City

The Healthy City

Thirteen Tactics

for the Good Life

lain Borden

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