The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design

by Anne Whiston Spirn

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465027067
• ISBN13: 9780465027064
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Granite Garden

I am somewhat new to reading books such as this for pleasure, but I read what I think will interest me. I was thrown at first by the title thinking that the book was going to be about hard scaping. Instead this book was a real eye opener to a lot of things we take for granted every day. Chapters titled soil, water, and air open up the reader to understand all that is envolved in making a city before you get to the buildings and people. I initally borrowed the book from the library while reading it but had to purchase a copy of my own for future reference. I give this book a high recommendation to anyone in the architecture or landscape fields.