More than forty years after the first signs of a new era in environmental thinking, landscape architects and the public at large continue to engage in ethical, practical, and metaphysical debates on what environmentalism really is and what it should be. This exchange of ideas has been characterized more by passion than by clarity, with definitive and persuasive answers hard to come by.
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Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

Read More by Michel Conan:

• Perspectives on Garden Histories
• Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850
• Landscape Design and Experience of Motion
• Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations
• Gardens, City Life, and Culture: A World Tour
• Performance and Appropriation: Profane Rituals in Gardens and Landscapes
• Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
• Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency
• Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion
• Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity
• Gardens and Cultural Change: A Pan-American Perspective
• Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and Agency