As anyone who’s done it can tell you, to garden is to hate nature—to war against what wants to spring from the soil in favor of the cultivated. Three of the four books here take the environmentally friendlier approach of colluding with nature.
The master of this is Margie Ruddick, the landscape architect responsible for a pollution-cleansing river park in China, and any number of beautiful, impressive, and ecologically beneficial projects. Her reinvention of Queens Plaza in New York, once a “tangle of elevated trains and bridges . . . spread out in a chaotic sea of roadbeds,” has yielded a place that invites walking, bike-riding, and seated contemplation.
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