{"product_id":"where-the-revolution-began","title":"Where the Revolution Began","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1963 and 1970  Lawrence Halprin and Associates realized a quartet of public plazas in Portland  Oregon  that redefined the city and set a bold new precedent for urban landscape architecture. Dubbed the Portland Open Space Sequence and composed of the Lovejoy Fountain  Pettygrove Park  and Forecourt Fountain (later renamed Ira Keller Fountain)  plus the lesser known Source Fountain  the plazas were a dynamic collage of striking concrete forms  gushing water  and alpine flora that  in their seamless mix of nature and theater  created a playful metaphorical watershed coursing through the central city. Where the Revolution Began is the story of how these plazas came to be. Born of the creative experimentation and collaboration between Halprin and his wife  pioneering choreographer\/ dancer Anna Halprin  the sequence came to life in the unlikely setting of the citys first scrape-and-rebuild urban renewal project. But Halprin defied the conventions of both American urban renewal and midcentury modernism  designing the kind of inviting  exuberant public space not seen since Renaissance Romes Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navonna. For Halprin  the plazas became the first step in a career-long exploration of sequential works of landscape design  from the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem to the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington  D.C. For Portland  Halprins work marked the beginning of a tradition of remaking the city around interactive public spaces such as the famed Pioneer Courthouse Square. And for landscape architecture  the plazas offer some of the earliest precedents for the ecologically and socially responsive urbanism ascendant today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949375189045,"sku":"ByrdShop_0982439210","price":227.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780982439210.jpg?v=1770073465","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/where-the-revolution-began","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}