Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
Building on Water focusses on the relationship between early modern agriculture and water management in Europe, and the history of Venetian hydraulic management.
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.