Anne Spirn Granite Garden. The buried river from anne whiston spirn on vimeo. Landscape photography and the art of discovery 2014. How to do it was an issue as recounted in the article ideas where one thing but changing minds into action was another.
In the granite garden spirn launched a revolution in thinking about the relationship between nature the urban environment and we who inhabit these realms the kind of thinking that today underlies landscape urbanism ecological urbanism sustainable urbanism anne was the first to understand and articulate these concepts to a broad audience. Free shipping on qualifying offers.
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.
This book may get a bit dry at parts for non urban designers. The buried river from anne whiston spirn on vimeo. Mcharg s design with nature inspired her writing the granite garden not as an academic treatise but rather to fill a void. Urban nature and human design 1984 as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century and credited it with launching the ecological urbanism movement.
