Landscape Art & Architecture

Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive his...

For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Chicago Tribune" architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the ...

Just as there is love at first sight between people, Václav Cílek writes, there can be love at first sight between a person and a place. A landscap...

Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban r...

Through close readings of individual serials and books and archival work on the publication history of the Gardener’s Magazine (1826-44) Sarah Dewi...

Spanning the career of one of Japan's most revered photographers, this monograph- the only English-language volume of its kind-features exquisitely...

In recent years, visual urbanism has emerged as a new research field. Photographers and researchers had been experimenting with critical visual met...

Urban riverbanks are attractive locations and highly prized recreational environments. However, they must meet the requirements of flood control, o...

This second volume of the series Advances in Art & Urban Futures brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultu...

The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of ...

FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approa...

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the ur...

From Stonehenge and Avebury to 18th-century pleasure gardens, some surprising Victorian outbreaks and the 20th century's landscapes of desire, Cath...

Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often ove...

Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in whic...

A comprehensive, one-stop guide to environmental stewardship for golf courses and grounds This highly practical guide covers the full complement of...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) In 2010, the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-La...

Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a h...

With its wide variety of topics and up-to-date coverage, Landscape Planning Fifth Edition is an excellent resource for students in a variety of dis...

Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a h...

Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most importan...

In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this passionate manifesto, Moshe Safdie...

Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure, privacy, demarcation of land...

As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book rev...

In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the b...

Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architect’s landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which ch...

This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourho...

This is the go-to guide for planners in small towns. For decades, this book has helped small towns and rural communities plan for change. It is a s...

Arcadia Updated delves into the concept of landscape as it is shaped by the literary tradition and material works known as pastoral. Referring to s...

Computer-based transportation applications and databases have been a fact of life for several decades. Transportation information, however, has oft...

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associa...

Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other prof...