This book evaluates the assumption that all built landscapes are environmentally sound, and offers practical, professional alternatives for more sustainable landscape construction, design, and maintenance. Packed with clear concepts and never before compiled resources on "green"…
This book evaluates the assumption that all built landscapes are environmentally sound, and offers practical, professional alternatives for more sustainable landscape construction, design, and maintenance. Packed with clear concepts and never before compiled resources on "green"…
Inexhaustible terrain: guano from the Chincha Islands, Peru to central park, 1862 -- Range of motions: granite from Vinalhaven, Maine to Broadway, 1892 -- Rivers of steel: steel from Pittsburgh to Riverside Park, 1937 -- Breathing with trees: London plane trees from Rikers Islan…
"This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is d…
