Product Description: This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the 17th to the mid-19th century defines a selection of one hundred terms and concepts used in garden planning and landscape architecture...read more

Product Description: John Evelyn (1620-1706), an English virtuoso and writer, was a pivotal figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life in England. He left an immensely rich literary heritage, which is of great significance for scholars interested in garden history and the histories of intellectual life and architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Regionalism has become a much-discussed design issue for landscape architects in recent years. Increased mobility, uprootedness, and the pace of change in an increasingly technological society have contributed to interest in this concept, which places value on cultural continuity in local areas...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume were presented at the symposium 'An English Arcadia: Landscape and Architecture in Britain and America', held at the Huntington on 26 and 27 October 1991. Contents: At the Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain; Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden; Appropriation and Adaptation: Early Gardening Literature in America; Love and Death across an English Garden: Constable's Paintings of His Family's Flower and Kitchen Gardens; Politics and the English Landscape since the First World War; The Case Study of Stowe; Discoveries, Challenges, and Moral Dilemmas in the Restoration of the Garden Building at Stowe; The Park and Garden Survey at Stowe: The Replanting and Restoration of the Historical Landscape...read more