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Spaced Out: A Guide to Best Contemporary Urban Spaces in the UK

This beautifully illustrated guide celebrates some of the most significant award winning public spaces in major cities in the UK and Ireland over the last ten years.

Dealing with a range of contemporary and innovating designed landscapes from urban spaces to public parks, this book focuses on those that have been awarded the highest design accolade from the Royal Institute of British Architects, The Royal Town and
Planning Institute, The Landscape Institute and The Civic Trust. Focusing on designs in ten major cities, and providing a snappy synopsis of each of the spaces in terms of its design statement, function, location, design team and award commentary, It illustrates to
the reader what makes ‘good design’ in the public realm, providing both information and inspiration.

* Beautifully illustrated guide to award winning contemporary urban spaces in the UK and Ireland
* Covers a diverse selection of spaces from parks to water fronts to city spaces
* Provides a synopsis for each design including comments from each of the judging panels involved


Spaced Out: A Guide to Best Contemporary Urban Spaces in the UK

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For Every House a Garden: A Guide for Reproducing Period Gardens

Prominent hortoculturalists present an excellent practical guide for reproducing period gardens in their many forms.


For Every House a Garden: A Guide for Reproducing Period Gardens

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John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum” and European Gardening (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture// Papers)

John Evelyn (1620-1706), an English virtuoso and writer, was a pivotal figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life in England. He left an immensely rich literary heritage, which is of great significance for scholars interested in garden history and the histories of intellectual life and architecture.

Evelyn is perhaps best known for Sylva, a compilation of thoughts on practical estate management, gardening, and philosophy, and the first book published by the Royal Society in London. As one of the group of learned men who founded the Royal Society in 1660 to promote scientific research, discussion, and publications, John Evelyn was at the center of many of the vital intellectual currents of the time. “Elysium Britannicum,” Evelyn’s unpublished manuscript of almost a thousand pages of densely packed drafts, rewrites, and projects, was perhaps something of an enigma to his contemporaries, who nevertheless urged its publication. It remains for scholars today a treasure-trove of fascinating insights on Evelyn and his milieu.

The contributors to this volume approach Evelyn and his work from diverse disciplines, including architectural and intellectual history and the histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present a rich picture of the “Elysium Britannicum” as one of the central documents of late European humanism.


John Evelyn’s “Elysium Britannicum” and European Gardening (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture// Papers)

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