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Innovative Lawns Reconnect Suburbs With Nature

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
25 May 2001 - 8:00am

Landscape architects revive the tired traditional lawn with innovative designs that bring natural systems back to the suburbs.

"[Carol] Franklin, a co-founder of Andropogon Associates, a Philadelphia-based firm specializing in ecological design, studied with Ian L. McHarg, the author of the radical 'Design With Nature'...Returning the context to the suburban lot shows the same respect for natural systems that underlies Ms. Franklin's work on far grander sites, such as restoring the woods around Fallingwater, which have been trodden by tourists."

Full Story: In the Suburbs, Brave New Lawns
Source: The New York Times, May 24, 2001
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