The Granite Garden Spirn

Urban nature and human design.

The granite garden spirn.

Anne whiston spirn fasla is a professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at mit. Urban nature and human design. Anne spirn makes a case that nature is in our built environment and recommends ways to work with our environment rather than against it. Spirn anne whiston 1 january 1984.

Free shipping on qualifying offers. Anne whiston spirn is a visionary of the first order whose innovative work on the ground has transformed and enhanced the quality of life in low income urban neighborhoods in deep and lasting ways. This book may get a bit dry at parts for non urban designers but there is so much in the book that anybody will enjoy. Urban nature and human design 1984.

The granite garden deserves as wide readership as silent spring boston globe in the literature of the city spirn belongs with lewis mumford and jane jacobs publishers weekly if you care about cities as they are or as they might be don t miss the granite garden. The granite garden by anne spirn 9780465027064 available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. In 2014 spirn s photography was exhibited at the smith college museum of art featuring work that was produced over 35 years during spirn s travels for her academic and personal research. Her most recent book is the eye is a door.