The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens
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    [synopsis] => The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is a comprehensive resource for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and garden history enthusiasts. An illustrated history of landscape design as told through iconic gardens from around the world. Linda A. Chisholm has long been interested in the way that landscape design reflects and sometimes even shapes a culture. She studies social and intellectual history and holds a PhD from Columbia University. She teaches the history of landscape design at the New York Botanical Garden and is a popular lecturer at garden clubs and other organizations as varied as the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and the Jane Austen Society of New York. She is a Master Gardener who gardens with her husband, sometimes successfully, at their home in Nyack, New York. Preface

Many years ago l left my Dust Bowl Oklahoma home to go to college in New York's lush and bountiful Hudson Valley. There I would take courses that in one way or another taught me that central to human experience is our relationship to our natural surroundings and that we have, from time immemorial, shaped the landscape to our ideal. As I studied the importance of rivers, I thought about the contrast between the all-but-dry Arkansas in my home city and the deep and wide Hudson on which as college students we skated in winter.

In literature, I studied Aeneas's harrowing voyage in the Mediterranean from Troy to what would become Rome, including the tricky passage between the rocky shoals of Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis. I considered the struggle between Captain Ahab and the great white whale Moby Dick. Courses in religion were replete with references to sea and land and to man's attempt to control through farming, fishing, and shepherding.

Then I read the great American novel The Grapes of Wrath, about the tragedy of my home state. There, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, farmers had in ignorance cut down the forests and tall grasses that once covered the state holding the fertile topsoil in place. With the felling of the trees and poor farming practices, strong winds carried away layer upon layer of rich soil, eventually leaving the land barren. Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps had planted millions of tree seedlings, but these were but saplings when I was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s. Thousands, like the Joad family in the novel, abandoned the useless farmland and migrated in their Ford pickup trucks to California where they hoped to prosper. Like the Joads, most did not. As I read this tale of man and nature, I recalled the hollow look of impoverished farmers and their ragged children that were part of my childhood.

In history courses, the theme of humankind's relationship to nature came up again and again as we studied the impact, good and bad, that we have had on the places we have settled and how we have used and re-formed the earth for our purposes.
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