The history of European landscape design has its beginnings in the early cultures of the Mediterranean. Today, the park is still a site of design activity where human beings use living material to create an artificial landscape, a paradise. Sensations conjures up the history of the garden before the reader's eyes, from the Garden of Eden to the invention of the lawnmower. This beautiful survey of the development of landscape design from 4000 B.C. to the present contains thoughtfully written texts and an abundance of historical and contemporary images