Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony
- ISBN-10
- 0300086946
- ISBN-13
- 9780300086942
- Category
- Gardening
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- Diana Balmori, F. Herbert Bormann, Gordon T. Geballe
Description
This new edition, which is being reissued in a more artistic format and with many additional illustrations, updates the original text and adds a chapter showing what progress has been made in the ecological management of landscapes over the past decade."--BOOK JACKET.
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