Reviews for The granite garden

The average rating for The granite garden based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-09-14 00:00:00 Luiz Goes Design and planning oriented book that does a nice job of describing urban areas and their connection to their geographic settings. Has information that connects it with portions of John McPhee's The Control of Nature, e.g., Boston and Atchafalaya. Statistics are out of date given its publication date of 1984.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-14 00:00:00 James Wampler I began reading the book during the COVID-19 quarantine time asking the question "what is essential in the landscape? and how do we have a conversation about "landscape as infrastructure." It was a very easy read but became more of a nostalgic look back on the past 40-50 years of how we have built the city, the landscape, what has become regular through and in practice, and at the same time all forgotten as what we are trying to build. Reading during COVID crisis, it was important to have an uncountable number of stories about plagues and epidemics caused by poor planning, development, and drinking water. I don't think I necessarily "learned" anything from the book but really have given myself a great historical framework to have contemporary conversations about what we are building right now.