Landscape architecture and design

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.

Traditionally, the public sector has been responsible for the provision of all public goods necessary to support sustainable urban development, including public infrastructure such as roads, parks, social facilities, climate mitigation and adaptation, and affordable housing.

Traditionally, the public sector has been responsible for the provision of all public goods necessary to support sustainable urban development, including public infrastructure such as roads, parks, social facilities, climate mitigation and adaptation, and affordable housing.

Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018.

Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018.

The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geography.

The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geography.

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.

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.

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures.

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures.

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.

Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice.

Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice.

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity.

Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become 'a great commercial emporium and fulcrum'.

Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become 'a great commercial emporium and fulcrum'.

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.

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.

This book assesses the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and identifies lessons learned for governance and policy through this new and innovative approach to collaborative forest management.

This book assesses the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and identifies lessons learned for governance and policy through this new and innovative approach to collaborative forest management.

Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems describes the design of high-performance feedback control systems, emphasizing the frequency-domain approach widely used in practical engineering.

Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems describes the design of high-performance feedback control systems, emphasizing the frequency-domain approach widely used in practical engineering.

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.

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events.

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events.

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.

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.

Basics Landscape Architecture 01: Urban Design seeks to define and describe the role played by landscape architecture in urban design, an interdisciplinary practice that is concerned with defining the form of human settlements.