Contains illustrations of more than 100 notable site plans, all drawn to a common scale. Features timelines of major events and biographies of nearly 200 important people in landscape architecture history. Includes an outline of history relative to environmental design and an extensive glossary of terms related to landscape architecture, architecture, planning, botany, engineering and art.
Landscape Architecture: An Illustrated History in Timelines, Site Plans and Biography
The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning interest in ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape. More recently a strong aesthetic element has been added to what was formerly a movement aimed at creating nature-like landscapes.
The Dynamic Landscape advances a fusion of scientific and ecological planning design philosophy that can address the need for more sustainable designed landscapes. It is a major statement on the design, implementation and management of ecologically inspired landscape vegetation.
With contributions from people at the forefront of developments in this field, in both Europe and North America, it provides a valuable synthesis of current thinking.
The Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of Naturalistic Urban Planting
An incredible, oversized volume with more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations, The Book of Garden Design examines the actual mechanics of garden design–putting pencil to paper and transforming those initial ideas into a fully realized garden.
