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Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for construction and human use, investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of other interventions that will produce desired outcomes.

The scope of the profession is broad and can be subdivided into several sub-categories including professional or licensed landscape architects who are regulated by gov
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Design With Nature
Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture
Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces
Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site
The Landscape of Man
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Landscape Urbanism Reader
The Planting Design Handbook
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History
Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Land Planning and Design
The Urban Mystique by Josh StephensCities for People by Jan GehlGroundswell by Peter ReedRadical Cities by Justin McGuirkThe Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
Urban/Urban Landscape (nonfiction)
94 books — 15 voters
A Valley Grows Up by Edward OsmondShaping the Postwar Landscape by Charles A BirnbaumRiver Cities, City Rivers by Thaïsa WayOvergrown by Julian RaxworthyAn Archaeological Study of the Bayeux Tapestry by Trevor Rowley
Landscape Architecture and Design
22 books — 3 voters

A Clearing in the Distance by Witold RybczynskiThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonGenius of Place by Justin  MartinF.L.O. by Laura Wood RoperWritings on Landscape, Culture, and Society by Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted
24 books — 4 voters
Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsVital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickWrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint
Jane Jacobs
17 books — 4 voters



Tom  Turner
The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas. It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history (Geoffrey Jellicoe, Landscape of man)
Tom Turner

Tom  Turner
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscap ...more
Tom Turner, Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC � 2000 AD

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