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JA: How are materials such as Milestone and concrete—inert, omnipresent in the city—expressed to say something specific about this place?
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Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Allegheny Riverfront Park Jane Amidon, Series Editor
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Contents
Acknowledgments
4
Preface,
6
Carol Brown
Data and Chronology
8
Conversations with Michael Van Valkenburgh
11
Site Plan
28
Site
35
Scissoring
49
Hypernature
57
Surface
73
Conscious Pragmatism
91
Urban Land
115
Gallery
119
Outside the Self, Criticism,
Gary R. Hilderbrand
Ethan Carr and Erik de Jong
148 154
Credits
158
Bibliography
159
Biographies
160
Acknowledgments
A depth of appreciation is due first and foremost to Michael Van Valkenburgh for participating with wit and wisdom in the inaugural Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professorship seminar. With customary insight that provoked students to strengthen their understanding of built landscapes, Michael set the bar high for all involved. The honesty of opinion and design leadership that impressed us as graduate students in the early 1990s continue to be hallmarks of Michael’s impact on contemporary landscape architecture. We are fortunate to have a project such as the Allegheny Riverfront Park to serve not just as the subject of the first Source Book in Landscape Architecture but as an inspiring model for urban park-making today. Many thanks to the combined talents of Michael Van Valkenburgh
