| Description |
ix, 283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
A garden story / Evelyn Lee |
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Spring, summer, fall, and winter / Florence Krall -- Objets trouvés / Paul Shepard -- Immigrant gardens on a mining frontier / Arnold R. Alanen -- Shared backyard gardening / Deborah D. Giraud -- Valued places / Marcia J. McNally -- Social meanings of residential gardens / Christopher Grampp -- Garden of the world / Randolph T. Hester, Jr. -- Personal dreams and pagan rituals / Robert L. Thayer, Jr. -- Harvey Fite's Opus 40 : from private garden to public art work / Deborah W. Dalton -- The everyday and the personal : six gardens stories / Mark Francis -- Reliquary / Chip Sullivan -- Grace Marchant and the global garden / Gray Brechin -- Today into tomorrow : an optimistic view / Garrett Eckbo -- Restorative experience : the healing power of nearby nature / Rachel and Stephen Kaplan -- Gardening as healing process / Charles A. Lewis -- Gardens are good places for dying / Catherine Howett |
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The garden as metaphor / Clare Cooper Marcus -- Nature is more than a garden / Ian L. McHarg -- Thoughts occasioned by the Old Testament / Achva Benzinberg Stein -- In the trail of the serpent : a theological inquiry / Robin Matthews -- Flowers, power, and sex / Robert B. Riley -- Radical growth : how the garden commandeers meaning in Colette's The cat / Ann Leone Philbrick -- United we sprout : a Chicago community garden story / Rebecca Severson -- Power plays / Marc Treib -- Landscaping the unconscious / Dean MacCannell -- Garden from region / Terry Harkness -- Minimalist gardens without walls / Peter Walker with Cathy Deino Blake -- Parking gardens / Paul Groth -- Nature in the urban garden / Kerry J. Dawson |
| Summary |
"Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature, yet in the vast library of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means - on the ecology of garden as idea, place, and action. The Meaning of Gardens maps out how the garden is perceived, designed, used, and valued. Essays from a variety of disciplines are organized around six metaphors special to our time - the garden muses of Faith, Power, Ordering, Cultural Expression, Personal Expression, and Healing. Each muse suggests specific inspirations for garden and landscape design."--pub. desc |
| Analysis |
Gardens |
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Gardens |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 262-273 |
| Subject |
Gardens -- Design.
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Gardens -- Religious aspects.
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Gardens -- Social aspects.
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Gardens -- Symbolic aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Francis, Mark, 1950-
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Hester, Randolph T., Jr., 1944-
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| LC no. |
89036048 |
| ISBN |
0262061279 |
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0262560615 |
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9780262061278 |
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9780262560610 |
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