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Facilitation and/or Manipulation? Lawrence Halprin and ‘Taking Part’

Alison B. Hirsch
Landscape Journal, March 2012, 31 (1-2) 117-134; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.31.1-2.117
Alison B. Hirsch
Alison B. Hirsch has an MLA, an MS in Historic Preservation, and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a practicing landscape architect in New York City, and also teaches at Pratt Institute and the University of Toronto. Her dissertation has evolved into a forthcoming book, City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin and Public Performance in Urban Renewal America (Fall 2013). Alison has published extensively on Halprin with particular focus on the development and application of the creative process he conceived with his wife, dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin. In 2007, Alison curated a drawings exhibition, titled “Lawrence Halprin: The Choreography of Gardens,” for the University of Pennsylvania's Kroiz Gallery
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