Au commencement, Dieu créa un jardin. Eden était son nom. Depuis des millénaires, les hommes n'ont de cesse de chercher le paradis perdu. À défaut de le trouver et sans attendre le jugement dernier, ils créent partout où cela est possible des jardins et des parcs, de véritables …
"Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such distinguished institutions as the Architectural Association in London and Harvard University. Desvigne?s projects have a strong strategic and c…
This book aims to explore the designed landscapes associated with factories and corporations in the UK and US created since the industrial revolution. It is largely historical, focusing on the period between 1890 and 1930 but it comes right up to date with initiatives such as se…
Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food
The 18th-century landscape garden is the only art form to have originated wholly in Britain. This book tells the extraordinary story of the gang of eccentrics who created these gardens, a small group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, and others whose obsession w…
"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant b…
"If you've ever wandered past a scrubby vacant lot and imagined how beautiful it could look with flowers or food crops or trees, you may have the heart of a guerrilla gardener. To the delight of many urban dwellers, random acts of gardening, with or without permission, are sprin…