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Tom Turner

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in Woking, The United Kingdom

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http://www.gardenvisit.com/

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Tom Turner is an English landscape architect and garden historian. He was educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh and studied landscape architecture under Frank Clarke.Tom edits the Gardenvisit.com website http://www.gardenvisit.com/. ...more

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John Claudius Loudon Biography

Loudon biographical material from Gardenvisit.com

John Claudius Loudon’s life, and that of his wife Jane Webb Loudon are covered in:

An extensive set of Loudon biographical pages on the Gardenvisit.com website The Claudians , a historical fictionalised biography by Tom Turner Landscape Dreams , a short and highly illustrated biography in graphic novel format.

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Average rating: 4.25 · 91 ratings · 5 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City as Landscape 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	British Gardens: History, philosophy and design 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscape design history & theory: landscape architecture and garden design origins 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscape architecture design theory and methods: Modern, Postmodern & Post-postmodern, including Landscape Ecological Urbanism & Geodesign 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design (Natural and Built Environment Series) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1987 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	London Gardens Walk 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Garden Design, History and Style Since 1650 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tom Turner said: " Essential reading for Tilman admirers but if you are not, yet, a member of this group it would be best to read one of Tilman's own books first. ...more "

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“The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.”
― Tom Turner, City as Landscape

tags: feminism, garden-design, landscape-architecture

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“In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.”
― Tom Turner, Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design

tags: landscape-architecture, landscape-design, landscape-planning

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“Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an environmental impact as possible. This is the objective of environmental impact design.”
― Tom Turner, Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design

tags: ea, eia, environmental-assessment, landscape-planning, town-planning

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tags: feminism, garden-design, landscape-architecture

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“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”
― Tom Turner, City as Landscape

tags: design-theory, landscape-architecture, landscape-design

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“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.”
― Tom Turner, City as Landscape

tags: design-theory, garden-design, garden-design-ideas

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“Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.”
― Tom Turner, European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design

tags: design-theory, garden-design

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“Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.”
― Tom Turner, Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD