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Practical guides

Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor, Millennium Park, Chicago. Photo: Justin Lightly/Photographer's Choice RF.

The Artist's Guide to Public Art: How to Find and Win Commissions (2008)

Learn exactly how to build a career in the world of public art. Artists at every career level will discover tips for the best ways to find, apply for, and win public art commissions.

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Art for Architecture (1987) Educated about Public Art (2001) Making Places - Working with Art in the Public Realm (2001) More practical guides

Urban design

RUDI: Placemaking 2008, cover image (detail)

Placemaking (2008)

A synthesis of professional practice and case studies about better living environments. A review of the key issues and challenges placemaking professionals face at the beginning of 2008, with project examples showing how these have been innovatively approached.

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Arts in a Living Downtown: Best Practices (1998) Advances in Art and Urban Futures Vol. I : Locality, Regeneration and Divers(c)ities (2003) Urban Regeneration: A Challenge for Public Art (1997) More urban design

Critiques

The Angel of the North, Gateshead, by Antony Gormley, 1998

Public Art Since 1950 (2006)

This beautifully illustrated book by Lynn F. Pearson reveals the history of postwar public art and provides a detailed guide to nearly two hundred of the most interesting and accessible works in United Kingdom

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Offentliche Kunst, Kunst im Offenlichen Raum Niederosterreich / Public Art Lower Austria The Art of City Making (2006) Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context and Controversy (1998) More critiques

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