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Original Essays | October 17, 2009

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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.

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"Deserves as wide a readership as Silent Spring. It is a softly written, easily read book, with an urgent, powerful message."(--Ian Menzies,Boston Globe)
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Anne Whiston Spirn is professor and chairman, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania.
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A must for urban environmental policy people of all stripes... Although over 20 years old - a timeless classic!
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ISBN:
9780465027064
Subtitle:
Urban Nature and Human Design
Author:
Spirn, Anne Whiston
Author:
Spirn, Anne W.
Publisher:
Basic Books
Subject:
Techniques
Subject:
Landscape
Subject:
Gardening and horticulture
Subject:
Rock gardens
Subject:
Sociology - General
Copyright:
1984
Publication Date:
August 1985
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
902x612x88 121
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