Public Spaces, Private Gardens : A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans /

Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documentsùmany of which have never been published until nowùto explore public and private outdoor spaces in New Orleans and those who shaped them. The result, Public...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Douglas, Lake, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge [La.] : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Landscape architecture.
Horticulture.
Gardens.
GARDENING > Landscape.
GARDENING > Garden Design.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
Architecture du paysage > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire.
Horticulture > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Gardens > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Landscape architecture > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Public open spaces in New Orleans
  • Commercial open spaces: "for use and for pleasure"
  • Domestic garden design
  • Horticultural content: plants and their uses
  • Nineteenth-century horticultural commerce
  • Workforce characteristics: gardeners, seedsmen, and "flourist" planters
  • Horticultural literature
  • Compiling plant lists for New Orleans gardens.

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