The Granite Garden Spirn

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.

The granite garden spirn.

Her most recent book is the eye is a door. Urban nature and human design. Urban nature and human design. 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.

The granite garden by anne spirn 9780465027064 available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Anne whiston spirn is a visionary of the first order whose innovative work on the ground has transformed and enhanced the quality of life in low income urban neighborhoods in deep and lasting ways. Anne spirn makes a case that nature is in our built environment and recommends ways to work with our environment rather than against it. 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.

Free shipping on qualifying offers. In 2014 spirn s photography was exhibited at the smith college museum of art featuring work that was produced over 35 years during spirn s travels for her academic and personal research. Spirn anne whiston 1 january 1984. Dorothea lange s photographs and reports from the.