Landscape Art & Architecture

Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring. Given the 20th century's additions ...

What knowledge is indispensable for the landscape architect? The answers to this question are as diverse as landscape architecture itself.In this ...

Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floa...

In visually cataloging the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, Best Practices proposes a new way of thinking a...

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventi...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model Aryan society in Norway during World War IIB...

Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go qui...

Yeovil rose to prominence in the 1800s as a major centre of glove-making. By the early twentieth century it was dominated by the defence industry, ...

In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cut...

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and ...

Religious communities inscribe themselves into the cityscape not only socially and politically, but also acoustically and architecturally. Global P...

The City That Never Was considers the increasingly speculative nature of contemporary urbanization by exploring the consequences of the massive bui...

The idea of a Greater London emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar trac...