Landscape Art & Architecture

The son of a watercolour artist, William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) studied at University College, Oxford where he met John Ruskin, whose secr...

An authoritative and fascinating investigation into the spatial and social dynamics of cities at a global scale Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is...

Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacl...

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits ...

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call the progressive nonsense of the Big Socie...

Anyone viewing what we call a landscape from a distance will recognise that it is an artefact, a habitat created by humans as part of our built env...

Roberto Burle Marx (19091994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclai...

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

'City Riffs' traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also ...

Beautiful Villages gives a comprehensive review of rural construction practices in contemporary China through a number of projects, such as the int...

The garden design firm of SMI Landscape Architecture is known for its estate masterplanning, its public gardens and streetscapes, and its thoughtfu...

Ultimate Gardens & Swimming Pools Front cover image Wim Pauwels Not yet printed due - 05/19 9782875500656 Hardback Beta-Plus Publishing Terri...

What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for Northern Cali...

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai...

Bringing nature into an urban setting is a particularly challenging part of twenty-first century urban planning and design. This book documents and...

What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southe...

2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities a...

The 18th-century phenomenon of the English Landscape Garden was so widespread that even today, when so much has been built over or otherwise change...

The second issue in the Words of Architecture series is an unpublished conference by the Italian architect Ludovico Quaroni who shares his ideas ab...

Urban Eurasia. Cities in Transformation is a journey to urban spaces, places, and people in the global and highly dynamic, but often forgotten regi...