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Books

CAPE COD FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL!


Generous supporters have donated $25,000 to publish The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore by Ethan Carr. Thank you, LALH donors! Read more about the forthcoming book. […]

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THE BEST PLANNED CITY, NOW IN PAPERBACK!


LALH and the University of Massachusetts Press announce the release of the new, paperback edition of The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System by Francis R. Kowsky, a volume in the LALH series Designing the American Park. Order your copy! […]

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JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO PUBLISH A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK ABOUT CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE


In The Greatest Beach: A History of the Cape Cod National Seashore, award-winning historian Ethan Carr tells the story of how a new model for landscape stewardship on Cape Cod transformed the course of land conservation in America. Please help us raise $25,000 by donating today […]

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JAMES ROSE EXHIBITION OPENS


James Rose: The Mid-Century Experience, an exhibition based on the LALH book, is on display at the Circle Gallery, College of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, until April 27. […]

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LALH BOOKS WIN PRIZES


The Foundation for Landscape Studies has awarded the J. B. Jackson Book Prize to James Rose by Dean Cardasis and Lawrence Halprin by Kenneth Helphand, the second and third volumes of the Masters of Modern Landscape Design series, and to Warren H. Manning, Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner, edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback. Warren H. Manning has […]

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LALH DONATES LOCKWOOD DE FOREST FAMILY PAPERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA


  Thanks to generous LALH supporters, funds were raised to purchase the family papers of Lockwood and Elizabeth de Forest. The archive was recently donated to the Architecture and Design Archives at University of California Santa Barbara, significantly expanding the collection. “Thanks to the Library of American Landscape History and their successful fundraising campaign, scholars […]

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