In Their Own Words

Chicago is a model for a new urban concept-the fusion of architecture and landscape. Seventy sites are explored in this beautifully illustrated and illuminating look at Chicago's way of bringing together buildings and landscape, culture and nature, commerce and leisure into energetic harmony. These green spaces, with their unprecedented melding of art, architecture and ecology, have become far more than places of escape-they are fully integrated into the urban scene, culture-producing parts of the modern city. Packed with maps and recommended tours as well as splendid photos, this is an essential guidebook for day-trippers, lifelong Chicago residents, and professionals in landscape architecture, urbanism, and design.