The history books we loved most in 2019 span centuries, nations and wars. From womanhood to nationhood, they challenge the construction of identity and mythology. They tell the stories of celebrity weddings, bootlegging trials, and people, places and things we thought we knew but prove, upon closer inspection, to be far more complex.

When Consuelo Vanderbilt of the wealthy American Vanderbilt family married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895, she was one of the most famous debutantes in the world, at a time when interest in the doings of the rich had never been more scrutinized. Consuelo had spent her whole life training to marry a royal, and the event itself was covered in major newspapers across the globe. In The Season: A Social History of the Debutante, author Kristen Richardson contextualizes Consuelo and her weddingand those of other famous debutantes, or young women making their societal debut, from the 1600s to today. The book is a centuries-spanning look at how debutantes and their rituals, from the antebellum South to modern-day Russia, have shaped marriage and womanhood in America and abroad.

For a time, George Remus had it all. The most successful bootlegger in America, Cincinnatis Remus controlled nearly 30 percent of illegal liquor in the United States in the early 1920s. Historian and bestselling author Karen Abbott traces the rise of Remushe was a pharmacist and a defense attorneyand the inevitable fall as he found himself on trial not just for bootlegging, but for the murder of his own wife. In an interview with Smithsonian, Abbott talked about the connection between Remus and F. Scott Fitzgeralds Jay Gatsby: I think Gatsby and Remus both had these longings of belonging to a world that didn't wholly accept them or fully understand them. Even if Fitzgerald never met Remus, everybody knew who George Remus was by the time Fitzgerald started to draft The Great Gatsby.

Many Americans know the names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, key figures in North American Indigenous history. In his new book, Oxford history professor Pekka Hmlinen (his previous book, The Comanche Empire, won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 2009) looks at the history of the Lakota Nation as other historians have looked at ancient Romea massive (and massively adaptive) empire that shaped the literal landscape of the Western United States as well as the fates of Indigenous groups for centuries.

Civil Rights, free love and anti-war protests have become synonymous with the 1960s, but in American Radicals, Holly Jackson, an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, traces these movements back a century in a reconsideration of radical protest and social upheaval in the mid-19th century. While some of the names that appear in Jacksons story, like famed abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, will be familiar to American history buffs, she also revives forgotten figures like Frances Wright, an heiress whose protests against the institution of marriage inspired Walt Whitman to call her one of the best [characters] in history, though also one of the least understood.

Only six people attended Thomas Paines funeral. Once the most famous writer in the American colonies (and, later, the United States of America), the corsetmaker-turned-pamphleteer had been virtually expelled from public life for his radical beliefs and writings, like the ones that suggested a tax on landowners could be used to fund basic income for everyone else. Harlow Giles Unger, a renowned biographer of the Founding Fathers, looks at the Paine we know and the one we dont, in his telling of the story of a man who pursued Enlightenment ideals even when those ideals ran afoul of what was socially acceptable.

As every day a new story about the dangers of vapingor the fervent support of vape fansappears, historian Sarah Milovs The Cigarette looks at the history of smoking in the United States and reminds us that once upon a time, the government was more concerned with the rights of tobacco companies than the rights of non-smokers. The book deftly connects the rise in organized opponents to smoking to food safety, car safety and other consumer rights movements of the 20th century. Kirkus says Milov mixes big-picture academic theory with fascinating, specific details to illuminate the rise and fall of tobacco production.

In Policing the Open Road, legal historian Sarah A. Seo argues that while cars (and highways, for that matter) have long been associated with freedom in the eyes of American drivers, their advent and rapid domination of travel is the basis for a radical increase in policing and criminalization. From traffic stops to parking tickets, Seo traces the history of cars alongside the history of crime and discovers that the two are inextricably linked. At times, says Hua Hsu in The New Yorker, Seos work feels like an underground historyof closeted gay men testing the limits of privacy; of African-Americans, like Jack Johnson or Martin Luther King, Jr., simply trying to get from one place to another.

Using the oral histories of formerly enslaved people, financial records and property history, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, makes a clear case that in the American South, many white women werent just complicit in the system of chattel slaverythey actively encouraged and benefited from it. Jones-Rogerss work dismantles the notion that white women in slaveholding families were silent actorsinstead, she argues, they used the institution of slavery to build a specific concept of womanhood that shaped the history of the nation before and after the Civil War.

In 1856, the United States passed a law that entitled citizens to take possession of any unclaimed island containing guano depositsguano, of course, being the excrement of bats. Guano is an excellent fertilizer, and over the course of the 20th century, the U.S. claimed dozens of small islands in remote parts of the world, turning them into territories with few rights of their own. The story of guano is one of many that touch upon the empire forged by the U.S. from Puerto Rico to the Philippines. Daniel Immerwahr, an associate professor of history at Northwestern University, tells the often brutal, often tragic stories of these territories in an attempt to make the Greater United States truly part of U.S. history.

In 1998, Tony Horwitzs Confederates in the Attic changed the way we talk about the Civil War and the American South by making the point that for many, even 150 years after the wars end, the conflict continued. In Spying on the South, published after Horwitzs death this year, the author returned to the Southern states, this time following the trail of the young Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect whose work defined northern cities like New York and Boston. Jill Lepore, writing in the New Yorker, called Horwitz the rare historianthe only historian I can think ofequally at home in the archive and in an interview, a dedicated scholar, a devoted journalist."

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OMAs first building in Manhattan is made of black concrete and glass, towering over Lexington Avenue with sides facing onto 22nd and 23rd Streets, thanks to its L-shaped lot.OMAs project fits into New Yorks urban fabric with an unusual vocabulary for a skyscraper, staying conveniently flat without attempting to distinguish itself too much from its surroundings. Yet the entire building manages to stand out from its urban context and express something new, even while maintaining the continuity of Manhattans highly varied urban faades.The first thing worth noting is the choice of materials, in that black-coloured concrete, used with glass, a classic material found everywhere in the Big Apple, creates an unexpected combination that gives the corner of 22nd and Lexington a new look. All this is amplified by the decision not to emphasise the sharpness of the corner that the two planes on two streets could easily have generated; the architects proceed in an entirely different formal direction, giving the walls a multi-faceted appearance by breaking them up into triangles, all different, at the point where the two walls come together. In this way they have made the corner seductive enough to draw the observers eye upward with fascinating slowness, rather than at the rapid pace typical of the city that never sleeps.In this project, concrete takes the place of steel, which might have been a more appropriate choice for such a bold faade; here, against all expectations, the frames around the square windows are rigid, to the point that the buildings skeleton and the faade are both heavy enough to bear wind load. This design expedient ensures that the levels beyond the skyline of the faade sway as little as possible in the wind.

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The Hilton Athens was the Greek capitals first international brand hotel. It was also the citys largest hotel building and when it opened in April 1963 (described as the most beautiful Hilton hotel in the world by its owner Conrad Hilton) it quickly became a hub for the local and international glitterati.

From stars like Frank Sinatra, Igmar Bergman and Anthony Quinn in the golden age of cinema to scintillating personalities such as Mikhail Barishnikov, Placido Domingo and Willem Dafoe in more recent times, the hotel has consistently proven its expertise in graciously hosting the most demanding of guests.

Today, the hotel retains an aura of cosmopolitan glamour and understated luxury blended with a relaxed, culturally-vibrant and contemporary flair. Apart from the impressive hieroglyphic-style reliefs created by artist Yiannis Moralis on the exterior wall which make the hotel stand out from any other structure in Athens the Hilton is decorated with artworks by Eleni Vernardaki, George Zongolopoulos, Chryssa, George Lappas, Aphrodite Liti, Pavlos and Theodore Stamos.

With the statue of The Runner (O Dromeas) by Costas Varotsos right across it on Vas. Sophias Ave, these two landmarks mark a characteristic key point of Athens.

I recently stayed at the Hilton Athens, choosing this historic hotel as the first of GCTs guide to presenting some of Greeces best places to stay.

Authentic Politeness

From the moment I stepped up to the desk to check in to the moment I checked out, I was made to feel welcome and at home. But ironically the kind of pampered, special at home that one can only feel in a hotel of this kind. The staff was polite, friendly, warm, professional, accommodating, efficient and non-intrusive throughout my 24 hours.

Understated Luxury

Upon entering the modern, minimally decorated lobby area that features light and neutral colours, plenty of natural light, wood, and glass, I instantly felt relaxed. Not too much opulence, no overload of artworks or furniture; an optimal and refreshing sense of openness and spaciousness.

Easy Location

Between Pangrati, Kolonaki, and Syntagma, the hotel (around five minutes walk to Evangelismos metro, which goes directly to the airport) is excellently located. Especially if you like to walk and explore the above-mentioned neighbourhoods in detail. Right across the hotel is the National Gallery, sadly still under construction, but once opened, an additional plus for guests.

Beautiful Views of the Acropolis

The hotels 506 rooms, each with a private balcony, face either the city or the Acropolis. I stayed in an Executive room on the 12th floor with a view of the Parthenon that just got better as the day wore on and was especially lovely at night.

Elegant Lunch

Guests can head to the Byzantino restaurant for classic-modern Mediterranean food or the Milos restaurant for upscale Greek cuisine. From May-October when the swimming pool (the largest in Athens) is open one can also order brunch or snacks from the Oasis Pool Bar-Grill while for a quick snack or light lunch guests can stop at the Aethrion Lobby Bar.

Architectural Character

Designed by Emmanouil Vourekas, Prokopis Vassiliadis, Spyros Staikos and Antonis Georgiades, the Hilton seriously stood out when it first appeared in the citys urban landscape. Architect Ioannis Vikelas, who briefly worked on its construction, has said: It was a project of great magnitude and quality There is an obvious sense of nobility and elegance to be seen in the details as well as in more general forms. However, he added: Athenians saw the Hilton as something of a weird alien object. It wasnt a matter of taste so much as bewilderment.

Lovely Pampering

One of the things the Hilton has become well known for apart from its architecture and views is its top-notch Hiltonia spa. It has a large internal pool with several pockets offering ideal jacuzzi bubble therapy, and sauna and steam booths in the mens and womens changing rooms. Excellently-trained therapists use the luxurious Germaine de Capuccini product range for innovative beauty treatments and relaxing therapies, such as the deeply-relaxing aroma-massage.

Glittering Dinner

On the hotels 13th floor is the Galaxy Bar and Restaurant, with a long balcony looking out to a glittering cityscape crowned by the Acropolis. There are two choices for dining here. One is a menu offering refined modern Mediterranean/Greek cuisine, with dishes such as Black Angus steak with truffle-seasoned potato chips, or risotto with crayfish, pickled asparagus, rose-petals and basil oil. The other is the Sushi Bar, serving classic maki, nigiri and sashimi platters plus new additions like Scallop Tobiko roll with lime as well as Surf N Turf with panko shrimps and beef fillet. The flavours from both menus are sophisticated and gratifying, and the view simply enchanting.

Cool DJ Vibes

The Galaxy Bar has been a busy nighttime hotspot ever since the hotel opened not bad for a bar thats been around for 55 years! The hotels grandiose reputation, its central location, and stunning views have made it a popular go-to place for a fancy outing. Over the last few decades, the addition of leading mixologists serving exciting cocktails and DJs hosting all-night parties has only served to add to the bars year-round appeal.

In-Room Tranquility

In between a delicious lunch, a reviving dip in the pool, spa pampering, starry-eyed dinner, and cocktails I loved retreating to my room. Elegant, modern and minimalist in style, with its view of the Parthenon, crisp white sheets and thick duvet and pillows, a walk-in marble shower and bathtub, it offered me a luxuriant sense of peace. After my breakfast, I had a few hours to kill before checkout and considered a swim in the spa pool. But the comfort of my room won. So I lay in bed reading a magazine and relaxing, just as I would at home.

Alexia Amvrazi enjoys the thrill of discovering beauty in the world around her. With a passionately hands-on approach to Greece's travel, gastronomy, holistic living, culture, innovation and creativity, for 20 years she has explored and shared her findings with the world on all aspects of the country and its people via writing, radio, blogs and videos. Although her childhood and early youth in Italy, Egypt and England left her feeling somewhat root-less, she is by now firmly connected to her native land, bravely weathering the hurricane known as the Greek crisis!

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A Brutalist school, an Art Deco church and soaring grain silos are among the diverse array of buildings featured in the new tome, Midwest Architecture Journeys. Book editor Zach Mortice discusses five highlights.

Released in October, Midwest Architecture Journeys is a 287-page, hardcover book from Belt Publishing that explores under-recognised buildings, places and spaces in the American Heartland.

The book primarily focuses on work in the following states Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Buildings by famed architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and Bertrand Goldberg are included, as are projects by lesser-known figures such as Walter Bailey and Lillian Leenhouts.

Some of the featured projects linger just outside of the architectural canon, while others are simple, everyday structures that are not designed by architects.

"It's a book that's a testament to the wild diversity of architectural experimentation here, that also points to an essential character of humble utopian optimism earned through hard work," said the book's Chicago-based editor, Zach Mortice.

The book is divided into four sections journeys, places, people, and vernacular each with a collection of essays and accompanying images.

In addition to an abundance of photographs, the tome contains 31 individual essays by writers from around the US, including an introduction by architecture critic Alexandra Lange.

The first chapter discusses road trips, while the second spotlights work by well-known Midwestern architects. The third section looks at specific buildings and spaces, while the final chapter examines new types of vernacular architecture.

Read on as Mortice spotlights five highlights from the book:

Williamson Hall in Minneapolis-St Paul

Located at the University of Minnesota, Williamson Hall is a Brutalist, subterranean building that was envisioned by architect David Bennett and completed in 1977. Mortice said the building is notable for two key reasons.

"It's an example of architects in the Midwest taking on bold experiments to deal with climate change, which were already well understood in the 1970s," he told Dezeen. "And it's perhaps the apotheosis of the Midwestern Prairie School idea of buildings that are responsive to and shaped by the land."

The building's design was influenced by the 1970s energy crisis, when architects were imagining underground buildings with temperatures that would remain comfortable and stable year-round.

"The desire to conserve energy and build underground was largely forgotten in the go-go 1980s, when profit was the only goal worth innovating for," said Mortice. "Today, these subterranean structures call to mind a queasy nostalgia for futures that never quite happened."

The asymmetrical Williamson Hall is organised around a sunken, open-air courtyard. The concrete structure has numerous plant-filled terraces, which Bennett designed in collaboration with landscape architect Clinton Hewitt.

"Vines were planted to grow in the summer, hanging down to block out excess light," said Mortice. "During the winter, the vines would dissipate, letting in more light, and subsequently, heat. It was an integrated climate system that depended equally on the architecture, landscape, and earth itself."

The book's essay about Williamson Hall was written by Andy Sturdevant.

Wright College by Bertrand Goldberg

This building complex at a Chicago community college was designed by local architect Bertrand Goldberg. It consists of several Brutalist-style, concrete blocks punctured with relatively small, square windows. A tubular walkway connects to a 130-foot (40-metre) steel pyramid, which houses offices and a library.

The complex has a 1960s aura, said Mortice, yet it was completed in 1992.

"Wright College is the most amazing and wonderfully bizarre building in Chicago no one knows about," said Mortice. "This is as close as you can get to Archigram or Alphaville in the Midwest."

Mortice, who authored the book's essay on Wright College, is particularly intrigued by the pyramidal structure, which he described as "complex and otherworldly".

The exterior has a cybernetic quality, while the interior is "a wild matrix of offset stairs, platforms and catwalks actual Piranesian complexity".

"You'll fine study nooks placed under the space tube skyways, and quiet corners at the pyramid's edges, good for a nap between class," he said. "The idiosyncrasy of the space encourages you to keep exploring, to find your secret place in Goldberg's intricate machine."

The First Church of Deliverance by Walter Bailey

Between 1916 and 1970, millions of African-American residents in the rural South packed up and moved to northern cities such as New York and Chicago a historical event known as the Great Migration. The influx of new residents had a significant impact on the built environment.

"Looking back over the last 100-plus years of Midwestern history, it's impossible to assess the cultural and architectural landscape of this place without focusing on the Great Migration," said Mortice.

Among the buildings featured in Mortice's book is The First Church of Deliverance, located in the Bronzeville neighbourhood on Chicago's Southside. The church was started by Reverend Clarence Cobbs, a charismatic man who initially held services in a vacant hat factory.

Around 1939, Cobbs hired Walter Bailey the first licensed African-American architect in Illinois to transform the factory into a proper church.

"Bailey's design is a totally singular and exceptionally modern solution," said Mortice. "It's a modest, cream-coloured Streamline Art Moderne structure, and looks more like a movie theatre than a place of worship."

The exterior features green stripes, glass-brick windows and a pair of towers with rounded corners. Inside, the Art Deco building has an illuminated cross that stretches across the ceiling.

"It was a bracingly contemporary environment that must have been adept at transforming agrarian Southern migrants new to the shores of Lake Michigan into cosmopolitan urbanists," said Mortice.

The project took place long before adaptive reuse became trendy, said Mortice, noting that it was "a budget-conscious approach for people with few resources to create the spaces they needed".

The book's essay on The First Church of Deliverance was authored by Mark Clemens.

Boulder Buildings by Earl Young

When it comes to architecture that demonstrates a reverence for nature, buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright often come to mind. But Midwest Architecture Journeys looks beyond Wright to explore other examples of earth-inspired architecture such as a collection of "boulder buildings" created by Earl Young, a self-taught builder in Michigan.

Young lived in Charlevoix, a resort town along Lake Michigan. He became so enamoured with the "Paleolithic, glacier-formed boulders" in the area that he started using them to construct homes and small commercial buildings.

"Often called Hobbit Homes, their emphasis on local materials and organic forms are an obvious parallel to Frank Lloyd Wright," said Mortice. "Like much of Wright's work, these boulder homes seem to spring directly from the land, but this time, there's a sense of escapist whimsy that Wright would never have tolerated."

The buildings feature thick walls and large fireplaces that were "both primal and totemic, fit for powering a blacksmith's forge or a warming up a wizard's cauldron", said Mortice.

Young started his series of boulder buildings around 1918 and continued until his death in the 1970s. He was known to dig up boulders and then hide them in the woods stashing them away for future use.

"He would often revisit them decades later to use them in a building, never having written down their dimensions, or sketched out a blueprint for how it would all come together," said Mortice. "He kept this entire world in his head."

The book's essay on the boulder buildings was written by Jonathan Rinck.

Grain Silos

Given the prevalence of grain farms in the Midwest, the area is often referred to as America's breadbasket. Fittingly, Mortice's book spotlights the tall silos used to store wheat, corn, barley, and other grains that eventually get eaten by humans and livestock.

"Anywhere in the world, so much of the built infrastructure that defines a place is architecture made without architects and grain silos are definitive icons representing the agricultural heritage of the Midwest," Mortice told Dezeen.

Mortice spent a good portion of his childhood on an Iowa farm, and grain elevators were the first "monumental structures" he encountered.

"I would nervously watch my dad climb to the top of them, and cover my ears to shield myself from the roar of their augurs as they spewed grain into trucks," he said.

In the innumerable small towns that constitute the vast Midwest, the grain silo is a ubiquitous feature that carries symbolic meaning.

"Grain towers are something like secular church steeples vertical signifiers of the region's cultural and economic regime," Mortice said.

The book's essay on silos was written by Lynn Freehill-Maye.

Photography is courtesy of Zach Mortice. Main image is by David Schalliol/Mas Context.

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So planners across the West of England region have been back at the drawing board for over a month now following the inspectors rejection of the hard fought Joint Spatial Plan (JSP).

They have a formidable task. The citys housing delivery plan outlines a need for 33,500 new homes for Bristol by 2036 over half of which need to be affordable. We also need space to support a big proportion of the 80,000+ new jobs expected across the JSP.

Whilst the citys housing and development community is now working much more creatively and collaboratively to maximise the use of space and the local authority is identifying major strategic sites for new homes, land remains in short supply.

There can be no doubt: we all need to get used to living closer together. We are facing a climate emergency and a growing need for more healthy lifestyles. Therefore, jobs and homes need to be close together, allowing active travel walking, jogging, cycling.

My colleague Yuli Cadney-Toh, who has spent much of her career working on liveable cities around the world, is a specialist in city densification and argues that when designed right, tall buildings can contribute to the solution.

But that doesnt mean the only way is up. Its not a binary choice. We can balance the move up with a move out - and we have to look beyond Bristols boundaries. We must be braver and far more creative in relation to the greenbelt in a way that respects its original purpose but helps to accommodate growth.

The Bristol-Bath greenbelt accounts for some 48 per cent of the land across the JSP area. Its primary goal was to prevent coalescence of the two cities and it has certainly been successful in that respect. In exceptional circumstances land can be taken out of the green belt. It is within the local planning authoritys gift to adjust its greenbelt. Indeed substantial tracts of land were taken out of the South Gloucestershire green belt to allow the development of Aztec West in the late 70s and early 80s.

Most of the employment within the plan area is in its cities and city fringes. Logic suggests that the long-term growth in housing and jobs needs to be near existing hubs or along sustainable mode transport corridors.

This is where we need to release the land. Naturally, we must target the areas with the least environmental impact and most sustainable location. As far back as the 70s, Ian L. McHarg (1920-2001), one of the most influential environmental planners and landscape architects of the century, defined the concept of landscape planning working with rather than against nature.

Using a sieve-mapping technique, he argued for an overlaid approach taking into account everything from topography and flood risk to agricultural assets and special or heritage interests. Building up this layered picture informs where the no go areas are whilst the white space illustrates areas with potential. A web, as opposed to a belt, emerges, a web which should also penetrate the city.

This will allow us to protect open space inside as well as outside the city. These are the green lungs and vital to the populations health and wellbeing. That is why we need an intelligent conversation about redefining the greenbelt to unlock sustainable growth.

Bristol can lead the way for the rest of the UK and we can start by defining the Green Web.

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The top respondents for the job title Landscape Architect are from the companies SWA Group, Norris Design and Olsson Associates. Reported salaries are highest at Stantec where the average pay is $64,715. Other companies that offer high salaries for this role include SWA Group and SmithGroupJJR, earning around $64,000 and $58,000, respectively. Olsson Associates pays the lowest at around $47,917. Norris Design and Kimley - Horn and Associates, Inc also pay on the lower end of the scale, paying $51,690 and $54,306, respectively.

Skills in Design, Project Management and Client Interaction are correlated to pay that is above average. Skills that pay less than market rate include Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk AutoCAD.

An entry-level Landscape Architect with less than 1 year experience can expect to earn an average total compensation (includes tips, bonus, and overtime pay) of $45,479 based on 122 salaries. An early career Landscape Architect with 1-4 years of experience earns an average total compensation of $50,748 based on 819 salaries. A mid-career Landscape Architect with 5-9 years of experience earns an average total compensation of $61,149 based on 682 salaries. An experienced Landscape Architect with 10-19 years of experience earns an average total compensation of $69,153 based on 590 salaries. In their late career (20 years and higher), employees earn an average total compensation of $77,393.

Employees with Landscape Architect in their job title in San Francisco, California earn an average of 17.3% more than the national average. These job titles also find higher than average salaries in New York, New York (15.9% more) and Boston, Massachusetts (9.8% more). The lowest salaries can be found in Dallas, Texas (7.3% less).

This data is based on 2,455 survey responses.

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CLC Landscape Design is an award-winning landscape architecture and landscape construction firm. For over 40 years CLC Landscape Design has been the preeminent design/build landscape firm in northern New Jersey. We love what we do! We would love to share our passion for creating beautiful landscapes with you. We handle all aspects of your landscape project design, install, and maintain in a fun and easy manner. We would love to meet with you at your home and share some exciting design ideas for your landscape! Please enjoy your visit to our website.

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Recently, CLCs Rich Cording Sr. had his backyard featured on NBCs HouseSmarts. His backyard was includedas part of a segment focused on ways to reduce or eliminate your lawn.

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My father founded CLC Landscape Design on the belief that Great Landscapes Begin with Great Design Ideas. Within one company he combined the vision of the landscape architect and the craftsmanship of the landscape contractor. This concept of design/build landscaping produces superior landscapes because the designers vision is implemented by a team of craftsmen trained in installing his landscapes.

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Our goal is to make every client a thrilled client! We are honored that the majority of our landscape projects are for continued clients or referrals. In addition, we are honored to have so many wonderful clients, including some, who have been clients for over 30 years!

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We are deeply honored to be a two-time recipient of the prestigious NJNLA Grand Award. This landscape award is voted on by our peers in the landscape industry. We received two more NJNLA awards last year for ourRandolph, NJandSparta, NJprojects. In addition, we have received over 25 other landscape awards.

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One of our expertise is in landscape designs involving a swimming pool. Our swimming pool designs integrate the swimming pools into the overall landscape to optimize use of space, create distinct outdoor living spaces, provide easy flow-of-traffic, a create a complete style that is unique to your aesthetic.

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We are a family business Rich Sr. and Rich Jr. with over 25 full-time employees from licensed landscape architects to landscape craftsmen. Our employees specialties include: landscape design, swimming pool design, landscape project management, patios, ornamental plantings, including deer resistant plantings, landscape lighting, ponds and streams, drainage, landscape maintenance, and fine gardening/horticultural programs.

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Located in Northern New Jersey, we most often install landscapes in Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex, Union, Sussex, Somerset counties in NJ and Rockland and Orange counties in NY. However, we have designed and installed landscapes as far north as the Adirondacks and as far south as Atlantic City. If you are interested in having us work with you, please do not hesitate to call 973-839-6026 or send us a message.

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