Historical ground the role of history in contemporary landscape architecture
John Dixon Hunt.
- New York: Routledge, 2014.
- xiv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.
Preliminary orientations -- History as geology, topography and weather -- Examples of history in earlier landscape architecture (Renaissance Rome, Désert de Retz, Les Buttes Chaumont) -- Five Paris sites: a scale of contemporary interventions and inventions -- History found and exploited in a specific place today -- History "invented" for a site today -- Land art, garden festivals & historical ground -- Afterword/afterlife.