Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+3358 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1401800 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668728 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668025 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667623 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674356 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668734 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304323 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298583 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302593 Get great ideas and solid advice on the craft of building with natural-looking stonework into garden landscapes. Provides step-by-step lessons on all the essential skills and techniques needed to build stone features. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1241890 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=974418 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741478 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692294 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=682367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=745027 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=761448 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=722057 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647823 Includes projects ranging from basic earthmoving and yard shaping to creating privacy fences, pathways and watercourses. Features the latest in tools, techniques, products and materials, including vinyl fencing, tumbled retaining wall block and outdoor fireplaces--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620089 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=612237 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=690598 MetroGreen examines how open-space networks have fared in real scenarios in ten studios of U.S. and Canadian cities paired for comparative analysis - Toronto and Chicago, Calgary and Denver, and Vancouver and Portland among them. Planners, landscape architects, conservationists, and municipal officials will profit from this leading examination of the tension between the widespread desire for open space and the complexity of controversy over providing and protecting it. MetroGreen is the authoritative source for examining the political and social issues affecting implementation of open-space systems.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613068 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=660446 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620513 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=691601 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=560617 Celebrated internationally as artists and gardeners, George Little and David Lewis now open the gates to their garden retreat, to share the personalities and enthusiasms that have shaped its wild fantasia of plants, art, and hardscapes. Little and Lewis are long-time collaborators whose concrete sculptures and garden installations have been collected around the world. Their Puget Sound garden is the primary showcase for their artwork but also for the unique gardening qualities that epitomize their style. From practical advice on how to make a slow-drip natural fountain or build an inexpensive Tuscan-style wall to conceptual discussions on laying out borders and making use of water, Little and Lewis offer inspiration and encourage gardeners to trust their instincts and take risks.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=593305 During the past decade an elite few American architects, landscape architects, and sculptors, including Stanley Saltowitz, Walter Hood, and Mary Miss, have pioneered the restoration of aesthetic and developmental values to play areas for young people. Susan G. Solomon appraises these success stories and proposes fresh and urgent remedies that blend excellent design principles, innovative planning, and affordability - a vision for the future of the playground in America. Supplementing her impeccable command of primary and secondary sources with hundreds of hours of interviews with designers and clients, the author confronts a seriously under-developed topic with powerful and complex arguments rich in social history, law, theories of play and childhood, and urban planning. Readers will be inspired - and equipped - to take up the gauntlet of advocacy for superior American playgrounds. American Playgrounds will fascinate diverse constituencies, including parents, educators, policymakers, and art, architectural and cultural historians. For those commissioning, funding, designing, and overseeing playgrounds, it will be indispensable.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=593295 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610363 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=566735 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=609733 This engaging guide to exceptional gardens in California conveys the charm and allure of more than a hundred delightful destinations, including acclaimed public landscapes, appealing private retreats, and exceptional nursery display gardens. For years author Alice Joyce has journeyed up and down the West Coast in a relentless quest to discover gardens where plants reign and the art of garden design flourishes. This book reveals the gardens she encountered along the way. Every gardenwalk write-up includes practical information that serves as a trip-planning tool, whether for a weeklong vacation or an afternoon stroll. Also included are an essay on garden styles, detailed appendixes, and a chapter of select lodgings whose own gardens are sights to behold. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=626362 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=517961 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=131601 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273470 Exploring the gardens Morris designed at his three homes and his factory, this lively mix of biography, anecdote and horticultural information details Morriss influence on garden design from the nineteenth century to today. The text draws greatly on Morriss lectures, poetry, and prose to illuminate his thoughts on gardening. The book also describes the native plants Morris included in his designs. Over forty plants -- all of which are readily available in the United States and Canada -- are pictured, and their growing habits defined in full. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=277407 In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsteds role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New Yorks Central Park, Californias Stanford University campus, Bostons Back Bay Fens, Illinoiss Riverside community, Ashevilles Biltmore Estate, and Louisvilles park system. Olmsteds contemporaries knew a man of even more diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He wrote books about the South and about his exploration of the Texas frontier. He managed Californias largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as general secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=271266 The Gardens of Versailles - along with the name of their chief creator, Andre Le Notre - have become synonymous with the French style of formal garden. This style in its turn would succumb to another national mode, the English school of naturalistic and picturesque landscapes. But as Thierry Mariage makes clear in this detailed and lucid book, the garden style that Le Notre brought to perfection need not be seen in opposition to the later English one; rather, he claims, they represent two points along a continuum that exists between the natural and cultural worlds. He situates Le Notres garden art in a complex social and cultural world, where the practices of land management, surveying techniques and hydrology, military practice, and both scientific and literary perspectives on land use and experience brought into being a unique form of landscape architecture. His analysis opens up the fashion in which design techniques and garden philosophy are shaped by material culture.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=297614 Transform an ordinary outdoor space into the garden of your dreams! These tantalizing, quirky, and theatrical ideas from an award-winning garden designer quickly and inventively solve almost any problem. Have a boring shed thats an eyesore -- but useful for storage? Turn it into a gypsy caravan. With the latest and greatest garden colors, create decorative effects such as fake lead and verdigris, imitation stone work, mosaic, and trompe l oeil. Make living sculptures, breathe new life into boundaries, gateways, and entrances, and achieve magic with special lighting and water features such as ponds, fountains, and waterfalls. In 240 color photographs and illustrations, every exceptional garden design springs to life on the page. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266887 Are gardens works of art? Author Stephanie Ross draws on the history of culture to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of 18th-century England, and tracing various connections between gardens and the art of painting, Ross documents the complex messages gardens can convey 8 color plates. 60 b&w photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=252055 Janecki rejects the expansive lawns and tightly clipped shrubs that have become the standards of Americas created landscape. Instead, she tries to introduce the natural world to her clients by landscaping their homes, parks, and businesses with the native plants that the larger gardening culture often ignores. Kathryn Phillips follows Janecki as she struggles against nursery fads, anxious clients, pest plants, pesky budgets, and self-doubts to design paradise. The result is an engrossing narrative which illuminates the complex forces that shape so much of the natural world we see each day. She introduces us to plant promoters, who want to carpet the world in roses, and nursery retailers who have to adapt to ever-changing fads.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266422 Gardens and their related architecture have always been designed in Japan, China, and Korea as a single, cohesive environment. The particular forms that these environments took over the centuries naturally reflect each countrys differing aesthetic principles, but were also governed by other concerns - from religious beliefs and social structure to simple spatial or climatic constraints. In his exploration of the history of garden design in the Far East, Toshiro Inaji offers a fascinating study of changing cultural and aesthetic values. The Garden as Architecture is the first book published in English to focus on the strikingly different interpretations made by these three countries - in their gardens and architecture - of the Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist, and geomantic principles that have informed their cultures since ancient times. This pioneering study makes clear just how and why the approaches taken by neighboring countries were so different.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138510 Starting with background information on the evolution of glass rooms and the basic elements of the style, the book examines, in text and photographs, each variation on the successful garden room. The chapters help the homeowner consider the effect of the garden outside, color, the pleasures of entertaining, wicker and other furniture, fountains, antiques and statuary. The more technical considerations of wall and floor finishes, heating and lighting, rugs and blinds - and, of course, planting under glass - are all discussed in detail for a well-considered room.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266666 Whether built for imperial use or for the enjoyment of a private scholar and his family, the garden is a centerpiece of classical Chinese culture. This book draws on a wide range of literary and artistic sources to present the fundamentals of Chinese garden design. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=157143 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=312362 Narrative offers fascinating ways of knowing and shaping landscapes not typically acknowledged in conventional documentation, mapping, surveys, or even in the formal concerns of design. This book establishes a comprehensive framework for understanding the elements, processes, and forms of landscape narratives. Illustrating specific narrative practices that can be applied across a range of design projects, it bridges the gap between theory and practice by tracing the narratives of specific projects and places, including the restoration of New Jerseys Meadowlands and the road stories of Highway 61 in Mississippi. Drawn from insights in literary theory, cultural geography, and visual art, Landscape Narratives traverses a broad range of disciplines and practices concerned with the social identity, history, and nature of place. Revealing exciting possibilities for preservation and heritage planning, public art, sustainable design, and other areas, Landscape Narratives is important reading for landscape architects, planners, and other designers involved in historic preservation, public art projects, and community and park design.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=236985 The Rothschild family, renowned as bankers, have had a huge impact on Western social and political history over nearly two centuries. Less well-known is their influence on the landscape, for many members of the family have been passionate and knowledgeable gardeners, skillfully creating magnificent parklands and gardens throughout England, Europe, and elsewhere. Enthusiastic and flamboyant, the Rothschilds have always been fond of showy bedding displays and elaborate topiary, but they have also enjoyed producing fruit and vegetables. Baron Edmond delighted guests at his households in Paris and Boulogne by inviting them to pick fresh fruit - ripe red or black cherries, or greengage plums - straight from dwarf trees brought into the dining room! More than just a book about beautiful gardens and estates, this is a combination of glorious photographs, extraordinary anecdotes, vast fortunes, and magnificent gardens. Archival pictures of many of the gardens and the characters involved accompany Miriam Rothschilds intimate, amusing look at the competitiveness and drive for perfection that has typified her familys behavior in gardening, as well as in business.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=34354 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266932 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=89816 The common thread that runs through these essays is the authors conviction that the growing rift in landscape design - ecology vs. aesthetics - is an artificial one. Each author expresses abiding concern for the ecological preservation and enhancement of the site, while demonstrating clearly - with both words and pictures - that the best designs are those that harmonize aesthetic form and ecological function. Ecological Design and Planning is a source of ideas and inspiration for landscape architects and planners, architects, and all those who understand the importance of designing with nature.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313611 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=157081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=259751 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=199109 In Grandmothers Garden: The Old-fashioned American Garden 1865-1915, art historian May Brawley Hill traces the development of this indigenous garden style in more than 150 period paintings and photographs and in a vast range of primary sources, including poems, letters, popular journalism, and garden writing. Women make up a large part of this history, because for many gardening was a refuge from the confines of their lives. The writers Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Anna Bartlett Warner are part of the story, as are the photographers Frances and Mary Allen, and Wallace Nutting. Notables in the Arts and Crafts movement include Gustav Stickley, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Maria Longworth Nichols.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=156124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=123311 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=239838 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=146909 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=249153 Gertrude Jekyll holds a unique place in the making of English gardens and has exerted immense influence on good garden planting throughout the world. Her genius was to endow gardens with an atmosphere of timeless serenity, valued in her own day but all the more precious in the tumult of the modern world. Over the years, many of her gardens and original plantings have disappeared, and only a handful of her plans are well known, although thousands survive in archives. For The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll Richard Bisgrove has selected the best of Miss Jekylls planting plans, most until now unpublished. With painstaking original research he has analyzed and reinterpreted them, making them accessible to todays gardeners. He demonstrates that Miss Jekylls ideas on planting remain fresh and relevant. Though many of the gardens she worked on were large, she usually preferred to divide them into smaller components. Her skill in using plants to soften the hard lines of new gardens and formal architecture, her ability to compose plantings to sustain interest throughout the seasons, her solutions to the problems of shady spots and awkward corners - all these make her designs directly applicable to todays limited plots. The plans are brought alive by an accomplished watercolorist and are enhanced by full-color photographs of Jekyll gardens and of modern plantings in the Jekyll tradition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=145768 A complete step-by-step guide to landscaping, including 550 full-color photographs and more than 200 illustrations to help readers design structures and fit them--along with plans--into an overall landscape. Also includes plant selection charts and advice on maintaining landscape structures and plants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=200216 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=255609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=132649 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=186435 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=34679 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=207979 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=39752 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27155 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=260936 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687337 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687134 Perhaps Americas best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir, Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.Until the trauma of the Civil War, many Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an Arcadia--not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgement of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists, painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners, and holds up for comparison the twenty-first centurys--and his own--tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits. His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American history--