Repose in the Metropolis

With text and lavish photos, this book reveals the most beautiful private gardens of New York City, created by major designers who deftly unite architecture with ecological sustainability, and city dwellers with nature. This book goes where few have gone before, into 14 very different gardens belonging to residents of New York City. These private worlds are the work of 10 major landscape designers, who brilliantly balance visual pleasure with ecological sustainability in challenging urban set…