TY - BOOK AU - Eckbo, Garrett. TI - Landscape for living AV - SB 472 .E35 1950 PY - 1950/// CY - [Place of publication not identifed] PB - F.W. Dodge Corporation KW - CITY PLANNING N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; A. Background -- I. Why now -- II. What is landscape design? -- III. History -- IV. Through the eighteenth century -- V. Since the eighteenth century -- VI. The world we live in -- VII. The principles of design -- B. Theory -- VIII. The question of theory -- IX. Space and people -- X. Materials -- XI. Earth-rock-water -- XII. Plants and planting -- XIII. Structural elements -- C. Practice -- XIV. Specific conditions -- D. What next -- XV. From art to planning N2 - Presents a synthesis of Eckbo's thinking and professional work and sets forth his theoretical approach to achieving the "total landscape." Illustrations throughout the book feature his own designs for gardens, parks, and institutional projects, group housing from his graduate years, work for the Farm Security Administration, and projects by the firm of Eckbo, Royston and Williams ER -