The Granite Garden Urban Nature And Human Design

Anne whiston spirn author of the award winning the granite garden.

The granite garden urban nature and human design.

Has information that connects it with portions of john. The 13 digit and 10 digit formats both work. This award winning book by a harvard landscape architect proves how important it is to understand the natural settings of cities their air water geology plant and animal life to create better more habitable urban environments. 1984 president s award of excellence american society of landscape architects.

Urban nature and human design. Urban nature and human design argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax grammar and metaphors and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. Spirn anne whiston 1947. Sep 14 2012 theresa rated it really liked it.

Urban nature and human design 1984. The granite garden is a book about nature in cities and what the city could be like if designed in concert with natural processes rather than in ignorance of them or in outright opposition. Urban nature and human design. My goal was to transform the way people think about cities and thus to change the way cities are designed and built.

The granite garden. Stadsecologie playgrounds bescherming protection plattelandskern natural history natuurbescherming nature conservation speelterreinen rural settlement steden nature urban ecology human ecology city planning environmental aspects urbanisme aspect de l environnement landscape architecture architecture du paysage e cologie humaine stadtplanung. Spirn author 3 7 out of 5 stars 2 ratings. This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape.

It presents synthesizes and applies knowledge from many disciplines to show how cities are part of nature and to demonstrate how they can be planned and designed in concert with natural processes rather than in conflict. Start your review of the granite garden. Design and planning oriented book that does a nice job of describing urban areas and their connection to their geographic settings.