Landscape Architecture: An Illustrated History in Timelines, Site Plans and Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0471594652
- ISBN-13
- 9780471594659
- Series
- Landscape Architecture
- Category
- Architecture / General
- Pages
- 461
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993-05-10
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- William A. Mann
Description
Contains illustrations of more than 100 notable site plans, all drawn to a common scale. Features timelines of major events and biographies of nearly 200 important people in landscape architecture history. Includes an outline of history relative to environmental design and an extensive glossary of terms related to landscape architecture, architecture, planning, botany, engineering, and art.
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