Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
- ISBN-10
- 0300031386
- ISBN-13
- 9780300031386
- Category
- Landscape architecture
- Pages
- 165
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Author
- John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Description
'No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook the scores of brilliant insights and challenges to the mind, eye and conscience contained in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. It is a book to be deeply cherished and to be read and pondered many times.' -Wilbur Zelinsky, Landscape
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