Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

This book explains how with careful planning and design, the functions and performance of constructed wetlands can provide a huge range of benefits to humans and the environment.

Immigrant Pastoral examines the growth of new Mexican heritage communities in the Midwest through the physical form of their cities and neighborhoods.

Immigrant Pastoral examines the growth of new Mexican heritage communities in the Midwest through the physical form of their cities and neighborhoods.

The last 30 years have seen a surge in temporary gardens.

The last 30 years have seen a surge in temporary gardens.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview.

The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview.

The act of field sketching allows us to experience the landscape first-hand - rather than reliance upon plans, maps and photographs at a distance, back in the studio.

The act of field sketching allows us to experience the landscape first-hand - rather than reliance upon plans, maps and photographs at a distance, back in the studio.

Designs for gardens and landscapes need to contain accurate information to ensure that both the designer's intent is clear and to enable the highest quality constructions.

Designs for gardens and landscapes need to contain accurate information to ensure that both the designer's intent is clear and to enable the highest quality constructions.

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality.

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality.

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting.

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting.

Strategies for Landscape Representation discusses a variety of digital and analogue production techniques for the representation of landscape at multiple scales.

Strategies for Landscape Representation discusses a variety of digital and analogue production techniques for the representation of landscape at multiple scales.

Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement AwardThe pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage.

Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment.

Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment.

Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a burgeoning interest in, and literature of, both landscape studies and food studies.

Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a burgeoning interest in, and literature of, both landscape studies and food studies.

Small-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities.

Small-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities.

Following on from the author's previous book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Surfaces, Steps and Margins, this book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Urban Water Features, provides clear instruction for the construction of small to medium scale water features.

Following on from the author's previous book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Surfaces, Steps and Margins, this book, Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Urban Water Features, provides clear instruction for the construction of small to medium scale water features.

Ian McHarg's ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century.

Ian McHarg's ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes.

Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes.

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together.

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together.

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship.

Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in academic scholarship.

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers' accounts.

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers' accounts.

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation.

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation.

Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world.

Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world.