No comments about Potenza (Le citta nella storia d'Italia).

No comments about Evergreens (Wisley).

No comments about Plants for Shade.

No comments about Canadian parks in perspective (Environment series).

2 comments about Gardens of Inspiration.

1. The photos did not inspire me at all. Too many individual plant pics, too many boring or small pics. Better to just get a free plant catalogue.



2. Beautifully enhanced with the photography of Vivian Russell and deftly edited by Erica Hunningher, Gardens Of Inspiration is a gorgeously illustrated showcase of lush and memorable gardens that serve as personal inspiration for fifteen of the greatest gardeners and horticulturalists from around the world. Thoughtful, informative, and occasionally inspiring narrative text, combined with insights for garden aesthetics and beauty, and truly dazzling color photography mark Gardens Of Inspiration a superb choice as a giftbook for gardening and plant enthusiasts, and an outstanding Memorial Fund acquisition selection for community libraries.

1 comments about Communitas.

1. For some reason, this visionary book has kept its relevance for over fifty years (revised early Sixties). A work of Goodman's youth, around the time he taught at Black Mountain College, Communitas is by turns common sensical, prophetic, poetic, absurdly idealistic, & frequently (deliberately) hilarious.

   What was so terribly dehumanizing about American cities (the model here is New York) in the Forties has not been corrected in any major way. In the aftermath of 9/11, with that horrible, gaping hole where the Towers stood, one turns again to Communitas & reads about banning cars from New York, making the the city's avenues pedestrian & bike friendly, preserving good neighborhoods with indigenous personalities, & transforming other harsh, declining or gentrifying areas into safe, humane areas that are welcoming & which provide homes, schools & shopping areas that erase racial & class divides.

   The Goodmans eagerly to take on Frank Lloyd Wright, Bucky Fuller, the international & all the other various schools of designs for living then current. They reach back to earlier American, British & European models of community that showed promise through their partial successes.

   This is a deeply felt & humane call for holistic, human-sized communities within our cities. Ultimately, the solutions may not be so grandiose as some of those suggested here. But the World Trade Center Towers, awesome as they were, were coldly & absurdly beyond human scale; symbols of our subservience to a system of economics that is usually blind to basic human requirements; gigantic obstacles to the simple warmth of an afternoon's sunshine. I suspect Paul Goodman despised them.

No comments about Skulpturen-Parks in Europa: Ein Kunst- und Landschaftsführer.

No comments about L'art des jardins en Europe.

No comments about Leisure resources, its comprehensive planning.

No comments about Park maker: A life of Frederick Law Olmsted.