JOHN NOLEN, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND CITY PLANNER GETS RAVE REVIEW
“Stephenson offers a richly developed biographical portrait of Nolen interwoven with a detailed discussion of his numerous planning projects. . . . The epilogue nicely ties Nolen’s work to current trends in the practice of city planning. The numerous color photographs make the book a visual delight and the excellent index makes referencing the book […]
FLETCHER STEELE ARCHIVE ONLINE RESOURCES AVAILABLE
Jane Verostek, who oversees the Fletcher Steele Archives at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, recently completed an online finding aid for the collection. In addition to an inventory of the Moon Library’s extensive holdings, researchers will find a timeline of Steele’s life, digital photographs, and links to other archival sources. http://libguides.esf.edu/steele For […]
LANDSCAPES OF EXCLUSION WINS PRESTIGIOUS J. B. JACKSON AWARD
The Foundation for Landscape Studies has awarded the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize to Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South by William E. O’Brien! “O’Brien has completed a remarkable work of scholarship in landscape history that makes it possible for us, finally, to understand this formerly obscured, but clearly […]
NEW RELEASE: JAMES ROSE
LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of James Rose by Dean Cardasis, the second volume in the Masters of Modern Landscape Design series. “This is the book that the history of a half century of American landscape architecture is missing. We all owe a great debt to Dean […]