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The Granite Garden, Urban Nature and Human Design

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Basic Books, 1984 - 334 páginas
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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Review: The Granite Garden: Urban Nature And Human Design

Comentário do usuário  - Theresa - Goodreads

Design and planning oriented book that does a nice job of describing urban areas and their connection to their geographic settings. Has information that connects it with portions of John McPhee's The ... Ler resenha completa

Review: The Granite Garden: Urban Nature And Human Design

Comentário do usuário  - Javier - Goodreads

this book really changed how i look at the environment around me. it was talking about keeping it green before green became so "hip." a great read for those interested in how to look for and design nature in a city. Ler resenha completa

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Conteúdo

The Granite Garden
3
City and Nature
9
Dirt and Discomfort
41
Improving Air Quality Enhancing Comfort
62
Shifting Ground and Squandered Resources
91
Finding Firm Ground and Exploiting Resources
109
Floods Droughts and Poisoned Water
129
Controlling and Restoring the Waters
142
Pets and Pests
207
Designing Wildlife Habitats
215
The City as an Infernal Machine
229
Designing the Urban Ecosystem
242
Visions of the Future
263
NOTES
279
BIBLIOGRAPHY
290
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
315

Straggle for Survival
171
Nurturing the Urban Biome
184

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Página 296 - Journal of the Structural Division, Proceedings of American Society of Civil Engineers 108 (1982):1751-67.

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Essays on city life, the environment, and Philadelphia by Nathaniel Popkin, author of Song of the City
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MAKING THE METROPOLIS GREEN. E-MAIL · Print; Save. Published: January 22, 1984. Richard Bender, an architect and urban planner, is the dean of the College ...
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Sobre o autor (1984)

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

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