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Designing with Nature?

The persistence of Capability Brown’s 18th century water features

Kristen Podolak, G. Mathias Kondolf, Louise A. Mozingo, Keith Bowhill and Margaretta Lovell
Landscape Journal, October 2013, 32 (1) 51-64; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.32.1.51
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