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The Granite Garden: Urban Nature And Human Design

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I am somewhat new to reading books such as this for pleasure, but I read what I think will interest me. I was thrown at first by the title thinking that the book was going to be about hard scaping. Instead this book was a real eye opener to a lot of things we take for granted every day. Chapters titled soil, water, and air open up the reader to understand all that is envolved in making a city before you get to the buildings and people. I initally borrowed the book from the library while reading it but had to purchase a copy of my own for future reference. I give this book a high recommendation to anyone in the architecture or landscape fields.

This book may have been eye opening for its time, but only the frame work of the problems listed are actually still relevant. The book criticizes cities for issues that are present throughout the world in areas of all populations and development. Most of the examples are outdated and give modern readers a false sense of our current environment. The book often exaggerates and offer few feasible solutions to the problems it presents.