John Hopkins DipLA MLA FLI ASLA is a landscape architect, environmental planner and urban designer. He was project sponsor for the parklands and public realm at the Olympic Delivery Authority from 2007 to 2011 and is currently visiting professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Greenwich.Peter Neal BA (Hons), DipLA, MDes, Dip Ecology, FLI is a landscape architect, environmental planner and urban designer. He was head of public space at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment from 2003 to 2011 and has acted as an adviser to the Olympic Delivery Authority for the Parklands and Public Realm since 2006. He currently runs his own landscape planning and design consultancy specializing in urban parks and the public realm.

• Acknowledgements 5Foreword – Sir Nicholas Serota 8Introduction – The Power of the Games 12Chapter One – Start with the Park 22Interview: Alison Nimmo CBE 36Interview: Jason Prior & Bill Hanway 46Chapter Two – Delivering the Park 60Interview: Sir David Higgins 66Interview: Ian Galloway OBE & Matt Heal 80Chapter Three – Planning and Designing the Park 104Interview: George Hargreaves 116Interview: Andrew Harland & Neil Mattinson 140Interview: Sarah Price 154Chapter Four – Constructing the Park 166Interview: Simon Wright OBE 180Interview: Tom Armour & Bill Grose / Alison Braham & Martyn Lass MBE 190Interview: Professor Nigel Dunnett & Professor James Hitchmough 210Chapter Five – A Walk in the Park 228Interview: Dennis Hone 236Interview: Sir John Armitt 244Afterword – ProfessorJames Corner 260Schedule of Teams Involved in the Project 264Glossary 269References 272Index 278Picture Credits 286

"This is a coffee table book with a difference-once picked up there is no desire to flick through and put it down more to leave the room and ask people not to disturb you... all I can say is read it, love it and learn from it.??This book makes me proud of us as a visionary, planning and working nation than the Olympics did as sporting one!" (Building Engineer, March 2013) "... provides the only authoritative and true account of how planners and designers built, landscaped and planted the greenest Games in history." (Pro Landscaper, January 2013)

John Hopkins DipLA MLA FLI ASLA is a landscape architect, environmental planner and urban designer. He was project sponsor for the parklands and public realm at the Olympic Delivery Authority from 2007 to 2011 and is currently visiting professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Greenwich.Peter Neal BA (Hons), DipLA, MDes, Dip Ecology, FLI is a landscape architect, environmental planner and urban designer. He was head of public space at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment from 2003 to 2011 and has acted as an adviser to the Olympic Delivery Authority for the Parklands and Public Realm since 2006. He currently runs his own landscape planning and design consultancy specializing in urban parks and the public realm.

• Acknowledgements 5Foreword – Sir Nicholas Serota 8Introduction – The Power of the Games 12Chapter One – Start with the Park 22Interview: Alison Nimmo CBE 36Interview: Jason Prior & Bill Hanway 46Chapter Two – Delivering the Park 60Interview: Sir David Higgins 66Interview: Ian Galloway OBE & Matt Heal 80Chapter Three – Planning and Designing the Park 104Interview: George Hargreaves 116Interview: Andrew Harland & Neil Mattinson 140Interview: Sarah Price 154Chapter Four – Constructing the Park 166Interview: Simon Wright OBE 180Interview: Tom Armour & Bill Grose / Alison Braham & Martyn Lass MBE 190Interview: Professor Nigel Dunnett & Professor James Hitchmough 210Chapter Five – A Walk in the Park 228Interview: Dennis Hone 236Interview: Sir John Armitt 244Afterword – ProfessorJames Corner 260Schedule of Teams Involved in the Project 264Glossary 269References 272Index 278Picture Credits 286

"This is a coffee table book with a difference-once picked up there is no desire to flick through and put it down more to leave the room and ask people not to disturb you... all I can say is read it, love it and learn from it.??This book makes me proud of us as a visionary, planning and working nation than the Olympics did as sporting one!" (Building Engineer, March 2013) "... provides the only authoritative and true account of how planners and designers built, landscaped and planted the greenest Games in history." (Pro Landscaper, January 2013)

John Hopkins DipLA MLA FLI ASLA is a landscape architect, environmental planner and urban designer. He was project sponsor for the parklands and public realm at the Olympic Delivery Authority from 2007 to 2011 and is currently visiting professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Greenwich.Peter Neal BA (Hons), DipLA, MDes, Dip Ecology, FLI is a landscape architect, environmental planner and urban designer. He was head of public space at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment from 2003 to 2011 and has acted as an adviser to the Olympic Delivery Authority for the Parklands and Public Realm since 2006. He currently runs his own landscape planning and design consultancy specializing in urban parks and the public realm.

• Acknowledgements 5Foreword – Sir Nicholas Serota 8Introduction – The Power of the Games 12Chapter One – Start with the Park 22Interview: Alison Nimmo CBE 36Interview: Jason Prior & Bill Hanway 46Chapter Two – Delivering the Park 60Interview: Sir David Higgins 66Interview: Ian Galloway OBE & Matt Heal 80Chapter Three – Planning and Designing the Park 104Interview: George Hargreaves 116Interview: Andrew Harland & Neil Mattinson 140Interview: Sarah Price 154Chapter Four – Constructing the Park 166Interview: Simon Wright OBE 180Interview: Tom Armour & Bill Grose / Alison Braham & Martyn Lass MBE 190Interview: Professor Nigel Dunnett & Professor James Hitchmough 210Chapter Five – A Walk in the Park 228Interview: Dennis Hone 236Interview: Sir John Armitt 244Afterword – ProfessorJames Corner 260Schedule of Teams Involved in the Project 264Glossary 269References 272Index 278Picture Credits 286

"This is a coffee table book with a difference-once picked up there is no desire to flick through and put it down more to leave the room and ask people not to disturb you... all I can say is read it, love it and learn from it.??This book makes me proud of us as a visionary, planning and working nation than the Olympics did as sporting one!" (Building Engineer, March 2013) "... provides the only authoritative and true account of how planners and designers built, landscaped and planted the greenest Games in history." (Pro Landscaper, January 2013)