Landscape Art & Architecture

Founded by Swiss settlers in 1845, New Glarus in Wisconsin evolved from being a dairy farming and cheese production village to a popular tourist de...

How should a diverse metropolitan region such as the German capital Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg reinvent itself, while preservi...

The Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, shedding new light on this widely misunderstood district In these volumes, t...

The room is dim, the chairs are in perfectly lined rows. The city planner puts up a color-coded diagram of the street improvement project, dreading...

Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open s...

Abandoned buildings are a viewfinder into our heritage and often offer a story to tell us, but not everyone will be lucky enough to hear these stor...

Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. The...

Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) n...

Landscapes create obvious environmental benefits but can have unrecognized negative impacts. Adam Regn Arvidson outlines the five primary problem i...

The work of an unjustly neglected antiquarian brought to life, showing his contribution to the field. After his military career, Major Hayman Rook...

Making a city that works for children creates a city that better serves all of its residents, across ages and abilities. Yet we have created unsafe...

Climate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under att...

This follow-up volume A Guide to Planning for Community Character addresses actual designs in the three general classes of communities set forth in...

Potential insights and inexpensive tools for converting small, vacant lots to community green space. Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood b...

Humphry Repton (17521818) ambitiously styled himself Capability Browns successor: the centurys next great improver of landed property. With his rar...

The biblical metaphor of a Land of Milk and Honey has denoted for millennia a prophecy and promise for plenitude. This book, published in conjuncti...

Alongside the detailed studies, there are plenty of beautiful photographs as well as diagrams and plans.  Homes & Gardens Over the years I have...

The New Normal (2017-2019) was a post-graduate program and Speculative Urbanism think-tank within Moscow''s renowned Strelka Institute of Media, Ar...

Swiss architecture is commonly conotated with the names of celebrated architects such as Marion Botta, Peter Zumthor, or Herzog & de Meuron, an...