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3 acres on the lake : DuSable Park Proposal Project
Title Description - In 2001 Laurie Palmer sent out an open request for proposals to transform an unused patch of public land set aside by the city of Chicago in 1987 as a future park dedicated to Haitian-French trader Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable,…
Berliner Allee
Title Description - Documents vegetation of traffic islands in urban settings. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
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Field guide to the wildlife of Madison Square Park : Mark Dion's Urban Wildlife Observation Unit, Madison Square Park, July 11-October 31, 2002
Title Description - At the invitation of the Public Art Fund, Mark Dion created The Urban Wildlife Observation Unit, a small work station in Madison Square Park, in which he conducted research on his surroundings from July 11 - October 31, 2002. A…
Find: [St. Louis public art] scapes
Title Description - The goal of this project was to draw attention to a burgeoning, and increasingly influential, sector of the St. Louis art world -- public art. Because public art isn't restrained by conventional methods of display (gallery and…
Guidebook : three manoeuvres by Tim Brennan in London E1/E2
Title Description - This book is the second in a series entitled Camerawalks whose mission is to encourage a closer reading/walking of the built environment. Drawing upon a range of references, disciplines, and histories of social description, Tim…
Hors de contenance : New York City, June 1996 : Marseille, janvier 2002
Title Description - Each page of this beautifully designed and produced book moves the reader slowly and mysteriously through an image of an empty hanging dress into a similarly ghostly building and then out through the back of the dress. The text,…
One place after another : site-specific art and locational identity
Title Description - One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many…
Platzwechsel
Title Description - In 1992, Zurich's Platspitz park--once a 19th century source of inspiration for nature lovers including James Joyce--made international headlines as the open-air home to some 3,000 illegal drug users and dealers. It was…
Prospectus : a manoeuvre
Title Description - The Mole Gap Trail is a new footpath linking Leatherhead, Boxhill and Dorking railway stations through the historic landscape of Norbury Park. Nine artworks have been commissioned for the trail, and Tim Brennan's "Prospectus" is a…