In recent years, perspective views have swept into the foreground in the field of landscape architecture. They have become the showpiece of any new design project, frequently overshadowing the plan as the principal graphic mediator of ideas....

Grace Starr plans. She likes order, organization, and the smell of bleach. When her ex-husband evicts her from her predictable life, she's faced with the hit-you-between-the-eyes realization she's been a bystander in her own life. Then a letter arrives. An anonymous donor gifts her a worn-out house in a small town....