Title: Recovering America
First published: 1999
Description: Malcolm Wells uses ariel photography to show how environmentally devastating and irrational modern urban design has become on the land.  He emphasizes the need to construct buildings in a way that allows more natural plant life and ecological processes to thrive.  Well's also provides sketches of many innovative design ideas that do just that.
Subjects: Architecture, History
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century