Landscape Art & Architecture

A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to re...

Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles. Recent phylogenetic (DNA-based) reorganization of higher plants has ...

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only ...

Warren H. Mannings (18601938) national practice comprised more than sixteen hundred landscape design and planning projects throughout North America...

Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The revitalization of the waterfront has been a prevalent trend in ...

In an age of glossy architectural visualizations and slick photography, todays media is saturated with images of projects mummified in their ideal,...

In New York's Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental playground revolution still remain. In Centr...

This is the go-to resource for designers creating new stormwater systems that are exciting, creative, and fun. Stormwater management as art? Absolu...

This book is about managing the infrastructure development cycle from project initiation to the end of the operation and maintenance phase. It focu...

This book is about managing the infrastructure development cycle from project initiation to the end of the operation and maintenance phase. It focu...

Racial strife, increased social and economic discrimination, amplified political friction, and growing uncertainty around the impacts of the COVID-...

The typology of the townhouse originated in the late 19th century yet still represents a viable and attractive alternative to the detached single-...

Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-ninet...

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century arch...

What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that ...

This book frames the many-sided fragilities of Hunan Provinces Heritage. It originates from a ten-year-long international cooperation between Polit...

A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew ho...

Londoners Making London tells the story of nine projects that have transformed urban neighbourhoods. Countering the expectation that the developmen...

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials. It introduces algorithmic approaches for mo...

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials. It introduces algorithmic approaches for mo...

A model city, the hope of democracy John Nolen on his suggested plans for Madison, WisconsinThis book connects John Nolen's political and social v...