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Japan's master gardens : lessons in space and environment
- Title
- Japan's master gardens : lessons in space and environment / Stephen Mansfield.
- Author
- Mansfield, Stephen.
- Publication
- Tokyo ; Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-7328 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map; 21 x 24 cm
- Summary
- Ranging from ancient times to modern-day environmental threats, a natural and cultural history of soil explains how an elimination of protective vegetation and an exposure to wind and rain causes severe erosion of cultivated soils, how the use and abuse of soil has shaped human history, and the how the rise of organic and no-till farming holds hope for the future.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- A sense of nature -- The modular garden -- Landscape gardens -- Requisitioning space -- Healing gardens.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-7328
- ISBN
- 9784805311288 (hardcover)
- 4805311282 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2011019342
- OCLC
- 723142782
- Author
- Mansfield, Stephen.
- Title
- Japan's master gardens : lessons in space and environment / Stephen Mansfield.
- Imprint
- Tokyo ; Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Alternate Script for Subject
- 庭園-日本.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-7328