Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Fa

Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents -- many of which

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Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- King Edward VII Sanatorium -- Phillips Memorial Cloister -- World War I cemeteries : naturalizing death -- Géza

Open urban spaces are an ideal stage for public events. An important prerequisite for their design in an increasingly heterogeneous multicultural cityscape is t