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Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Perhaps best known as the founding director of New York's Central Park Conservancy, which oversaw and funded the park's revitalization, Rogers (The Forests and Wetlands of New York City) here presents a comprehensive survey of landscape design. Viewing her subject as the art that modifies and shapes nature, she explores the cultural values that shape, or are embodied in, cities, parks, and gardens. Embracing all cultures and ranging from prehistoric times to the present, this book covers the broadest range of subjects implied by the title, including city planning, landscape architecture, conservation, earthworks, and other uses of land in contemporary art. While this history is international in scope, it does narrow its primary focus to the United States when it reaches the late 20th century. The photographs and especially the plans are excellent and numerous. Single pages or double-page spreads devoted to specific topics add an encyclopedic element while allowing Rogers to provide even more information, illustrations, and plans without interrupting the flow of her very readable text. Accessible to lay readers but of interest to scholars, this book could serve as the text for a comprehensive course on the history of landscape design. Highly recommended. Daniel Starr, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (Hardcover)
The people who own this book bought it because they recognized in the title the triangulation that makes it unique. Although it has plenty of photos and diagrams, it is not meant as a photo book. Rather, it takes on the very difficult task of attempting to understand Western culture as it is told in three interwoven narrations of human thinking -- and how that thinking plays itself out in our relation with the earth. Ms. Rogers uses just the language I need. Excellent.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great coffee table book, bad text book,
By Geoffrey Brady (Chandler, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (Hardcover)
I had to purchase this book for my LA class and it's a bug squasher. While the pictures are impressive, and the coverage of the subject in-depth, the author can be long winded. What she covers in a page could have easily been said in a couple of paragraphs. I also don't care for the glossy pages. While they make the pictures look nice, reading the fine text that it's printed can give one a headache.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A note about the photos,
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This review is from: Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (Hardcover)
Very well researched history of landscape design. However, I wouldn't go so far as to describe the photographs as 'breathtaking' as does another reviewer. There are many of them, all interesting, but almost all (apart from a brief intro sequence) only quarter or eighth page size. As a result, there is no image as impressive as the front cover. This is my only quibble, and the reason for 4 not 5 stars: why have a book so big and then not make full use of its size to present such a visually-based subject?
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