Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

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.

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.

Adopting an evidence-based approach, this book uses two state-of-the-art experimental studies to explore nature's therapeutic benefits in healthcare environments, emphasizing how windows and transparent spaces can strengthen people-nature interactions.

Cassiobury Park has an incredible history.

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an encounter that determines the entire course of the design process.

This title was first published in 2002.

Given the extent of his influence on 17th-century life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John Evelyn.

Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design.

Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener.

With increased public attention focused on the environment and government legislation on competition, landscape managers are coming under increasing pressure to adopt a more disciplined analytical approach to their work.

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it.

Our great British parks are one of the finest legacies of the Victorian age.

Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design.

A fabulous book about designing gardens great and small, packed with wisdom on the abiding principles of gorgeous garden design.

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies and increased pedestrian activity.

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development.

These collected works represent twenty-five years of study of the designed landscape which the author here takes to include gardens, cemeteries, plazas and other shared spaces.

The fast-paced nature of the design business means that you probably spend most of your time, energy and resources looking after your clients' needs, not your own.

The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso's Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education.

From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area.

Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora.

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.

Following on from the critically acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, this is the lighting design companion every professional and student in landscape architecture needs.

In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation.

Australia's complex, beautiful and diverse flora is showcased in stunning botanic gardens across the continent.

The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields.

Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architect's landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which characterised his approach to and understanding of architecture as part of the wider environment.

While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives.

Most landscape architectural designs now include some form of digital representation - but there is much more scope for creativity beyond the standard Photoshop montages.

Design for Outdoor Recreation takes a detailed look at all aspects of design of facilities needed by visitors to outdoor recreation destinations.

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of small creatures with whom welive cheek-by-jowl and of the myriad ways that we can encourage them to thrive.

Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener.

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 Gardener's Year is not about quick fixes, design makeovers or hard drudge, but simply about knowing what you should be doing in your garden, when, and why.

Aided by this book the gardener can now answer the question "e;What's in a name?

Designing Sustainable Forest Landscapes is a definitive guide to the design and management of forest landscapes, covering the theory and principles of forest design as well as providing practical guidance on methods and tools.

For over a decade, Monty Don has travelled the world, using gardens and green spaces to get under the skin of our most beloved cities and countries.

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

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

'A world-renowned horticultural tour de force, Arabella Lennox-Boyd is one of the most accomplished landscape designers of our time' House and Garden'Arabella Lennox-Boyd's memoir-like account is a complete joy to read as well as to look at.

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age.

The Zen gardens of Japan are places in which to meditate.

The Protected Vista draws a historical lineage from the eighteenth-century picturesque to present-day planning policy, highlighting how the values embedded within familiar views have developed over time through appropriation by diverse groups for cultural and political purposes.

Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relation to the urban ecology within the context of the city's urban development during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Following the popular BBC series, this book is the comprehensive guide to one of Europes largest and most ambitious gardening projects, the magnificent RHS Bridgewater.

'If outdoor activities with young children have always baffled you, then this is the book for you.