Landscape Art & Architecture

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The second issue in the Words of Architecture series is an unpublished conference by the Italian architect Ludovico Quaroni who shares his ideas ab...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

This richly illustrated monograph discusses the post-war modernist architecture in the Soviet Lithuania, which, together with other Baltic republic...

Iran has one of the oldest town cultures in the world. It goes back more than 4,000 years. Between the Islamic conquest in the seventh century and ...

The Gran Vía Project, an ambitious operation that spanned four decades, was undoubtedly one of the biggest urban operations ever undertaken in Madr...

The modernist history of landscape architecture is deeply marbled with veins of regional and phenomenological sensibility. Master designer Terence...

Written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, this collection of essays begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and th...

Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in...

From the first utopian impulse of Plato's Republic to today's global border controls and public space surveillance systems, there has always been a...

In the writing of urban design history of the twentieth century, functionalist and avant-garde models of the dissolution of the city are dominating...