Historical Ground : The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)

1. Preliminary orientations  2. History as geology, topography and weather  3. Examples of history in earlier landscape architecture (Renaissance Rome, Desert de Retz, Les Buttes Chaumont)  4. Five Paris sites: a scale of contemporary interventions and inventions  5. History found and exploited in a specific place today  6. History "invented" for a site today  7. Land Art, Garden Festivals & historical ground  8. Afterword/Afterlife