Theory of Landscape

A complementary sequel to Relating Architecture to Landscape, this volume of essays explores further areas of interest and debate in the landscape/architecture debate...

Bringing together for the first time many well known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice, this volume argues for a progressive and engaged design practice which fully relates to the complexity and diversity of American cities...

Marking the Land investigates physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers. When and why do hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale place markers on their landscape? When and why are such markers limited to simple, informational signs? When and why are markers invested..

Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy...

Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy...

 This groundbreaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised...

 This groundbreaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised...

Surveying four approaches to city-making, the author here gives an assessment of the development of American urbanism, highlighting recurrent themes and how these interact, merge and conflict...

The book shows how climate change has received more and more attention in policy making at the local level and changed the urban agenda, Furthermore, it is shown how different the responses of cities to this global challenge are – and how these differences between cities can be explained...

The aim of this book is to construct a framework of understanding for those coming to the field of recreational land management from a non-land management discipline...

This book looks at research methods that are specific to and for landscape architecture, and contributes to the further development of landscape architecture as an academic discipline in its own right...

This carefully selected collection of readings and commentary expertly guides the reader through the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings which shaped the field in its emergence and maturity...