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
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
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

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

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


Tom  Turner
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. ...more
Tom Turner, City as Landscape

Jarod Kintz
I like landscape architecture. And I studied horticulture the old-fashioned way—by watching golf on TV.
Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

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