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
Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards (Wiley Graphic Standards)
Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces
The Planting Design Handbook
The Landscape of Man
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses
Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Landscape Urbanism Reader
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History
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 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

A Valley Grows Up by Edward OsmondShaping the Postwar Landscape by Charles A BirnbaumRiver Cities, City Rivers by Thaïsa WayFrom Rails to Trails by Peter HarnikOvergrown by Julian Raxworthy
Landscape Architecture and Design
28 books — 4 voters
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickVital Little Plans by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsWrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint
Jane Jacobs
17 books — 4 voters



Tom  Turner
The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia.
Tom Turner, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

Tom  Turner
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

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