The Culture of Cultivation : Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture (Paperback)

Introduction The Culture of Cultivation: Designing and Writing the Landscape Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto PART I Contemporary Practices and Conservation 1. The Practice of Cultivation: A Dialogue of Beauty, Conservation, and Productivity through Design Thomas L. Woltz 2. Landscape Design and Agriculture: A Mexican Perspective Mario Schjetnan 3. Productive Conservation for Resilient Urban Regions and Agricultural Hinterlands: Linking Mexico City’s Appetite to Watersheds and Landscapes Flavio Sciaraffia PART II Design and Urban Agriculture 4. The Urban Changes Everything about Agriculture Laura Lawson and Meredith Taylor 5. Productive Green Community Space: A Challenge for the Contemporary Israeli City Tal Alon-Mozes PART III Histories of Productive Landscapes 6. "L’utile a l’agreable": Planting the Early Modern French Garden Elizabeth Hyde 7. The "Three Natures": Culture and Cultivation in 18th-Century England Tom Williamson PART IV Preserving the Cultural Landscape 8. Maclura pomifera and the Making of an American Middle: A Case Study MK Smaby and Carolyn Wheeler ? Prairie Studio 9. Cultivating Design: Resilience (and Beauty?) through Adapting Inherited Landscapes Graham Fairclough Notes Index