The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design

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.

Author: Anne Whiston Spirn
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 08/01/1985
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.12w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780465027064
ISBN10: 0465027067
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Landscape

About the Author
Anne Whiston Spirn is professor and chairman, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania.