Heritage Gardens - Care, Conservation, Management

Heritage gardens create huge management headaches. How does one preserve a garden designed for the enjoyment of the few when the advent of the many grinds it away to nothing? The answer, as presented in Heritage Gardens is a subterfuge: preserve the illusion of the created environment as originally conceived, but adjust it using more durable materials: plants and designs which require less cultivation. Of all the problems facing the heritage industry today, the managment of gardens and landscape environment create some of the greatest difficulties. This book seeks to provide some of the answers.

List of contents

Glossary 1 Background 2 The conservation process 3 Maintenance and management 4 Case studies, Conclusion

About the author

Sheena Mackellar Goulty is a landscape architect specialising in the conservation of gardens and estate policies working in both Scotland and Italy.

Summary

Of all the problems facing the heritage industry today, the management of gardens and landscape environment create some of the greatest difficulties. This book seeks to provide some of the answers.

Product details

• Authors: Sheena MacKellar Goulty
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.1993
• EAN: 9780415074742
• ISBN: 978-0-415-07474-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; History, Cultural Studies, Landscape art & architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Humanities, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Landscape architecture and design, Civil engineering, surveying and building