Parks of Sprawl: The Corporate Landscape

Ford Fairlane Case Study

Bormann, F. Herbert, Diana Balmori, and Gordon T. Geballe.  Redesigning the American Lawn: A search for environmental harmony, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993.

Groth, Paul and Chris Wilson, ed.  Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J. B. Jackson, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003.

Jenkins, Virginia Scott.  The Lawn: A history of an American obsession, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 1994.

Lang, Robert E.  “Office Sprawl: The evolving geography of business”, The Brookings Institution Survey Series, October 2000.

Martin, Reinhold.  The Organizational Complex, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2003.

Mozingo, Louise.  “The Corporate Estate in the USA, 1954-1964 'Thoroughly modern in concept, but ... down to earth and rugged'”, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol.20, no.1, pp.25-56, Jan 2000.

Teyssot, Georges, ed.  The American Lawn, Princeton Architectural Press with Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 1999.

Interview:
With Daniel Ballnik, Ford Environmental Control Engineer on August 16, 2005 and November 22, 2005.

Footnotes:

1. Mozingo, p. 52
2. Homeowner survey from Watershed Protection Techniques.
3. The National Xeriscape Council
4. Westerholm, Roger. Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, June 1, 2001, http://greengrasscutters.com
5. "Office Sprawl", p. 8.
6. USA Today, 10/31/2001