The Granite Garden Spirn

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The granite garden spirn.

She is also the author of the granite garden 1984 asla president s award of excellence the language of landscape 1988 and daring to look. Her most recent book is the eye is a door. The granite garden deserves as wide readership as silent spring boston globe in the literature of the city spirn belongs with lewis mumford and jane jacobs publishers weekly if you care about cities as they are or as they might be don t miss the granite garden. Urban nature and human design.

Anne spirn makes a case that nature is in our built environment and recommends ways to work with our environment rather than against it. The granite garden by anne spirn 9780465027064 available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Anne whiston spirn fasla is a professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at mit. Dorothea lange s photographs and reports from the.

This book may get a bit dry at parts for non urban designers but there is so much in the book that anybody will enjoy. Spirn anne whiston 1 january 1984. Urban nature and human design. Urban nature and human design 1984.