Innovative Lawns Reconnect Suburbs With Nature

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

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May 25, 2001, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"[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."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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