Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens

by Robert E. Grese

Book Overview

Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801842875
• ISBN13: 9780801842870
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.3"