Paradise Lot (Chelsea Green, 2013) tells the story of Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates turning the barren and run-down tenth-of-an-acre lot behind their duplex into what is not just another urban ...
It’s an intricate, carefully planned ecology of life, of you in all your surroundings, using 12 design principles and five zones. If that sounds a bit highfalutin, it isn’t, in practical terms.