Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park

The series is intended to delve beneath the surface of contemporary designed landscapes to look at the intentionality and results, each volume focusing on one project or a group of related works deemed significant to the practice and study of current landscape architecture. The project described and colorfully illustrated here was part of a larger development project in Pittsburgh completed in 2004. Interviews with the designer and comments by critics provide most of the text. There is no index. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)