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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglas, Lake, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge [La.] : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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