Landscape architecture and design

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam.

In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning.

Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together.

Developing a program to train planning commissioners and zoning board members takes a lot of time and effort.

The author's classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages.

Gardens at the Frontier addresses broad issues of interest to architectural historians, environmental historians, garden writers, geographers, and other scholars.

Gardens at the Frontier addresses broad issues of interest to architectural historians, environmental historians, garden writers, geographers, and other scholars.

This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "e;minimum dwelling"e;, exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society.

This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban.

This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban.

The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences oflife entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and landscape architecture in Great Britain.

The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences oflife entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and landscape architecture in Great Britain.

Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai's Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city's global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy.

Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai's Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city's global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy.

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.

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.

Evolving Public Space in South Africa discusses the transformation of public space highlighted in the country.

Evolving Public Space in South Africa discusses the transformation of public space highlighted in the country.

Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers.

Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers.

The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric.

The western Japanese city of Hagi is the town in Japan which has preserved the greatest level of Tokugawa period (1600-1868) urban and architectural fabric.

Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected.

Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected.

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

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

Infrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interdependence of resources and agencies, recognizes a rightfully accelerated need for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes rising environmental diligence across the design disciplines.

Infrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interdependence of resources and agencies, recognizes a rightfully accelerated need for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes rising environmental diligence across the design disciplines.

This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory.

This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory.

Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R.

Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R.

What was a "e;garden"e; in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined?

What was a "e;garden"e; in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined?

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

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

In recent decades, a new scientii c approach to understand, explain, and predict many features of religion has emerged.

In recent decades, a new scientii c approach to understand, explain, and predict many features of religion has emerged.

The Companion to Public Space draws together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of specially commissioned chapters that offer the state of the art in the intellectual discourse, scholarship, research, and principles of understanding in the construction of public space.

The Companion to Public Space draws together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of specially commissioned chapters that offer the state of the art in the intellectual discourse, scholarship, research, and principles of understanding in the construction of public space.

Now in its 44th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2025 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s?

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s?

Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers.

Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers.

Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism.

Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism.

Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the seventeenth century to the present, and contemporary infrastructure projects around the globe.