University Of Pennsylvania Press

A sweeping assessment of the entire career of Frank Furness that features more than one hundred illustrations, George E. Thomas's book argues that American modern architecture, in design and genealogy, is rooted in the industrial culture of Philadelphia and the office of Frank Furness.

A comprehensive survey of Islamic gardens, from antiquity through to the present.

The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth.