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 spirn.
Urban nature and human design.
Spirn anne whiston 1 january 1984.
Urban nature and human design.
Anne whiston spirn fasla is a professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at mit.
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.
Landscape photography and the art of discovery 2014.
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.
Her most recent book is the eye is a door.
Anne spirn makes a case that nature is in our built environment and recommends ways to work with our environment rather than against it.
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Urban nature and human design 1984.
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.