Books by: ANNE WHISTON SPIRN

Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field

Near the end of her career, Dorothea Lange lamented, “No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually. . . . I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.” Lange, however, did look, unflinchingly turning her lens on the despair, degradation, and greed... [more]
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Language of Landscape

This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape and thereby to avoid making profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes in landscape design. Using examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Anne Spirn examines urban, rural, and... [more]
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The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design

This award-winning book by a Harvard landscape architect proves how important it is to understand the natural settings of cities—their air, water, geology, plant, and animal life—to create better, more habitable urban environments.... [more]

Plants for passive cooling: A preliminary investigation of the use of plants for passive cooling in temperate humid climates

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