SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transformative ideas from the realms of historic preservation, sustainability, ecological urbanism, and the innovation economy, Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul ......
The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social contributions-all informed by Enlightenment ideals-included prison reform, the founding of the Georgia Colony on behalf of the ""worthy poor,"" and stirring the founders of the ......
Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners. ""[A] fine contribution to the ......
The John Staub Awards, presented biennially by the Texas Chapter of the Institute for Classical Architecture & Art, honor architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and master artisans whose work exemplifies beauty, proportion, and enduring craftsmanship. Named for the influential Houston architect John F. Staub (1892-1981)-whose ......
An Institutional History of The Arboretum at Penn State
Rooted in Excellence tells an improbable Penn State success story: how an idea that failed for nearly a century finally took root and flourished, against all odds. The Arboretum at Penn State is one of the University's most cherished spaces. In this book, Kim Steiner, the Arboretum's founding director, traces the long, uncertain path to its ......
The story of one of the most beloved campus landscapes in America as told by the designers and historians charged with its care William Penn envisioned Philadelphia as a "greene country towne." Perhaps nowhere has this ideal been realized more than the University of Pennsylvania campus. Indeed, the very meaning of Pennsylvania--"Penn's ......
Celebrated as one of the great landscape architects of his era, Jens Jensen drew on his love of nature to transform Illinois and the Midwest. Chicago's Columbus Park and the Lincoln Memorial Garden in Springfield, Illinois, remain part of his vast living legacy while Jensen's conservation work influenced the establishment of national parks and ......
Celebrated as one of the great landscape architects of his era, Jens Jensen drew on his love of nature to transform Illinois and the Midwest. Chicago's Columbus Park and the Lincoln Memorial Garden in Springfield, Illinois, remain part of his vast living legacy while Jensen's conservation work influenced the establishment of national parks and ......
