Parkmerced
San Francisco, California
Designed by Thomas Church
With Robert Royston
- Dorothée Imbert, Thomas Church, Landscape Architect: Designing a Modern California Landscape (2003)
Parkmerced was designed as 鈥渁 city within a city鈥� by architect Leonard Schultze and Associates with planning and landscape architecture by Thomas Church with Robert Royston.
Today, it is one of this country鈥檚 four remaining examples of large-scale, post-World War II residential developments. Unfortunately, there are numerous threats to the design, including plans by the current owners to subdivide portions of the site and make changes to the property鈥檚 pioneering landscape design.
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