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From their early use as protective shelter to the felling of thousands of trees to harvest wood and create farmland, to more recent attempts at conservation, trees remain one of mankind's greatest resources. But aside from their purely practical uses, trees are appreciated for their beauty and have long served as important elements in designed landscapes. Tree Gardens is the first book to focus on what author Gina Crandell calls the "largest living architectural structures"--masses of trees that form expressive spaces on sites all over the world. Each case study--from the grand park at Versailles, to New York City's 9/11 Memorial Forest--explains how the scale, context, species, and spacing of trees on a particular site establish its expressive structure. Featuring engaging text and beautiful images, this much-needed book combines useful how-to aspects of tree planting with theoretical discourse on tree garden design and will be an important resource for students, landscape architects, and horticulturists alike.

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• Acknowledgments(p. 9)
• Introduction(p. 10)
• The Wooded Circle: 1544 - Lucca, Italy(p. 12)
• Boboli Garden: 1549 - Florence, Italy as painted by Giusto Utens, 1599(p. 22)
• Versailles: 1661 - Versailles, France(p. 28)
• Central Park Mall: 1858 - New York, New York(p. 38)
• Musical Garden: 1945 - Herning, Denmark(p. 46)
• Gateway Memorial Park: 1948 - St. Louis, Missouri(p. 54)
• Linden Quincunx, Christian Science Plaza: Sasaki Associates 1963 - Boston, Massachusetts(p. 64)
• Tate Modern: 1995 - London, England(p. 72)
• Riemer Park: 1995 - Munich, Germany(p. 82)
• Oerliker Park: 1996 - Zurich, Switzerland(p. 94)
• Parc de l'Ancien Palais: 1998 - Geneva, Switzerland(p. 104)
• Novartis Headquarters PWP Landscape Architecture 1999 - Basel, Switzerland(p. 112)
• Floating Gardens, Yongning River Park: Turenscape 2002 - Huangyan, China(p. 120)
• Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates 2003-New York, New York(p. 130)
• 9/11 Memorial Forest PWP Landscape Architecture 2004 - New York, New York(p. 140)
• The Orchard, the Nursery, and the Forest(p. 155)
• Illustration Credits(p. 163)
• Notes(p. 163)
• Index(p. 164)

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Library Journal Review

Landscape architect Crandell (Nature Pictorialized: The View in Landscape History) presents case studies of 15 outstanding parks in which tree groups form a major part of the design. Some are ancient, like Andre Le Notre's Versailles, but the majority are modern. Most are located in Europe, though the author includes New York's Central Park Mall, Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1, and the 9/11 Memorial forest. Other American parks covered are Christian Science Plaza in Boston and Gateway Memorial Park in St. Louis. In each case, Crandell supplies background about the site, then outlines the landscape architects' concepts and discusses how they have been realized. She makes the reader aware of the effects created by tree species, layout, spacing, and pruning. Long-term maintenance specifications such as thinning and replanting are mentioned. The book is well illustrated with site plans, engravings, and photographs. VERDICT While the language is accessible, there are some specialized terms. Landscape architects or students and perhaps some planners will be the main beneficiaries of this informative survey.-David R. Conn, formerly with Surrey Libs., BC (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Crandell, a practicing landscape architect and academic, has selected 15 landscape architecture projects that combine the concepts of "architecture" and "forest" in very deliberate ways. Geographically, they are found in western Europe (nine), the eastern US (five), and China (one). The projects are arranged chronologically from mid-16th century to contemporary designs, and all still exist in some form. Some have a very limited palette of plants, often one, although Olmstead's Central Park and Van Valkenburgh's Brooklyn Bridge Park are among the more diversity-rich exceptions. Crandell is an engaging writer, drawing the reader into the story of each place as she briefly summarizes the history of both the designer and the project. She evokes rich images that are wonderfully supplemented by excellent color photographs, site plans, and illustrations. Most of her chosen subjects are examples of the primacy of design over ecology, but all are intriguing, significant, and artfully accomplished. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. G. D. Dreyer Connecticut College

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Brookline, MA-based landscape architecture professor Gina Crandell was the Farrand Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007 after teaching for many years at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Rhode Island School of Design