The vision of Atlanta as a region restored using forests and wetlands is what clinched the regional victory for BNIM Architects and its Atlanta-based partners EDAW, Praxis, and Metcalf & Eddy.

A first book by Becky Homan, retired garden editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in a gardening series from Globe Pequot Press, the largest publisher of regional travel in the U.S., with emphasis on outdoor recreation---"Exactly," says Homan, "what home gardening should be about!"