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- Rescuing Eden : preserving America's historic gardens
- Tác giả: Curtice Taylor, Caroline Seebohm
- Nhà xuất bản: Monacelli Press - New York
- Năm xuất bản: 2015
- Số trang:213 p.
- Kích thước:30 cm
- Số đăng ký cá biệt:56092
- ISBN:978-1580934084
- Mã Dewey:745.4
- Đơn giá:0
- Vị trí lưu trữ:03 Quang Trung
- Ngôn ngữ:English
- Loại tài liệu:Sách Chuyên ngành
- Đang rỗi/ Tổng sách:1/1
- Từ khóa:Historic gardens, botanical gardens,
- Chủ đề: Historic gardens--Conservation and restoration--United States & Botanical gardens--United States--Pictorial works
- Chuyên ngành: Khoa Kiến trúc
- Tóm tắt: From simple 18th- and early 19th-century gardens to the lavish estates of the Gilded Age, the gardens started by 1930s inmates at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay to the centuries-old camellias at Middleton Place near Charleston, South Carolina -- Rescuing Eden celebrates the history of garden design in the United States, with 28 examples that have been saved by conservationists and private owners, and opened to the public. The United States has a rich tradition of landscape design, with gardens on a scale that rivaled the great gardens of Europe, but in the absence of specific institutions dedicated to their preservation, many of these "ephemeral collaborations between man and nature" were lost -- during the wars, economic depressions, and social upheavals that swept the country in the mid-20th-century, or to creeping development and urban sprawl...