- The Eye is a Door
- "I am filled with admiration for this book- for its truly remarkable practicality, its uncommon precision, its unique scope and sweep."
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- Jane Jacobs
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- “There are few books that have the power to change the way one sees the world. This is one of them.”“There are few books that have the power to change the way one sees the world. This is one of them.”
- William Cronon
- “…a very important book… fascinating insight”
- “…a very important book… fascinating insight”
- Mary Ellen Mark
- “A model of community-based planning efforts”
- “A model of community-based planning efforts”
- National Housing Institute,
on the West Philadelphia Landscape Project
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West Philadelphia Landscape Project
ASLA Award-winning Project
1986-Present
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> Go to 2011 Course
> Download Article, “Restoring Mill Creek”
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West Philadelphia Landscape Project
ASLA Award-winning Project
1986-Present
> Go to Site
> Go to 2011 Course
> Download Article, “Restoring Mill Creek”
> View the Mill Creek Project
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field
(University of Chicago Press, 2008)
2009 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
2009 Great Places Book Award
2009 Honerable Mention, PROSE Award
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> Hear NPR Interview
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field
(University of Chicago Press, 2008)
2009 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
2009 Great Places Book Award
2009 Honerable Mention, PROSE Award
The Language of Landscape
(Yale University Press, 1998)
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> Hear PRI Interview
> Read Review by Landscape Architecture
The Language of Landscape
(Yale University Press, 1998)
> Purchase Book
> Hear PRI Interview
> Read Review by Landscape Architecture
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
(New York: Basic Books, 1984). Translated into Japanese and Portuguese.
1984 President’s Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects
2009 Named one of the past century’s “100 Essential Books of Planning,” American Planning Association
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> Hear PRI Interview
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
(New York: Basic Books, 1984). Translated into Japanese and Portuguese.
1984 President’s Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects
2009 Named one of the past century’s “100 Essential Books of Planning,” American Planning Association
“Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted”
in Uncommon Ground: Toward Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, edited by William Cronon
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“Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted”
in Uncommon Ground: Toward Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, edited by William Cronon