Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; 1 Prolegomena; Part I Biography; 2 Britain; 3 America; Part II Landscape and urbanism; 4 A technique for the twentieth century; 5 Landscape design; 6 Civic art and design; 7 From Wisley to A World with a View: the metamorphosis of a landscape architect; Annex A: Brief biographical facts; Annex B: Tunnard's principal landscape designs; Annex C: Tunnard's writings; Annex D: Bibliography; Index
Summary
Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction. Between the 1950s and the 1970s he was in the forefront of the movement to save the city, becoming an acclaimed author sympathetic to preservation. Ironically it was the Modernist ethos that he had so fervently advocated before the war that was the justification for the dismemberment of great cities by officials, engineers and planners. This was not the first time that Tunnard ha
