Landscape architecture: General resources

Arvidson, Adam Regn, Greening the landscape : strategies for environmentally sound practice, W.W. Norton, SB472.45 .A78 2012

Constant, Caroline, The modern architectural landscape, University of Minnesota Press, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Poch, Marta, Merging city and nature : 30 commitments to combat climate change, ACTAR Publishers, NA9053.E58 B38 2022

Reed, Chris & Nina-Marie Lister, Projective ecologies, Actar, SB472.45 .P76 2020

Association for Vertical Farming (professional association)

Blanc, Patrick, The Vertical garden: from nature to the city, W. W. Norton, SB463.5 .B5313 2011

Dakin, Karla, et al., The professional design guide to green roofs, Timber Press, SB419.5.D35 2013

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (professional association)

International Green Roof Association (professional association)

Murdock, James, “Vertical gardens sprout in L.A.’s Skid Row,” Architectural record, 2008, p. 36

Nghia, Vo Trong & Takashi Niwa (editors), Going green with vertical landscapes, Images Publishing, NA2542.36 .G65 2017

Seward, Aaron, “The grass ceiling,” Architect, November 2011, p. 50-55

Weiler, Susan K., Green roof systems: a guide to the planning, design, and construction, John Wiley & Sons, SB419.5.W45 2009

Werthman, Christian, Green roof - a case study, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Garden History magazine (Issues from 1972, with a 3-year delay, are available via Jstor)

Goode, Patrick & Michael Lancaster, The Oxford companion to gardens, Oxford University Press, SB469.25.O95 1986

Lawrence, Henry W., City trees: a historical geography from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, University of Virginia Press, SB435.6.E85L39 2006

Pregill, Philip & Nancy Volkman, Landscapes in history: design and planning in the Eastern and Western traditions, John Wiley & Sons, SB470.5.P74 1999

Conon, Michel, Sacred gardens and landscapes: ritual and agency, Dumbarton Oaks, BL629.5.G37D86 2007

"Egypt," in The Oxford Companion to Gardens, Oxford University Press, SB469.25.O95 1986

Granziera, Patrizia, “Concept of the garden in pre-Hispanic Mexico,” Garden history, Winter 2001, p. 185-213 (PDF via Jstor)

Hartswick, Kim J., Gardens of Sallust: a changing landscape, University of Texas Press, 2004 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Jashemski, Wilhelmina F., The Gardens of Pompeii, Caratzas Brothers, SB466.I82P655

Rinaldi, Bianca Maria, Ideas of Chinese gardens: Western accounts, 1300-1860, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Samson, Alexander, Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Smith, Bruce D., The Emergence of agriculture, Scientific American Library, GN799. A4S52 1994

Wilkinson, Alix, “Symbolism and design in ancient Egyptian gardens,” Garden history, Summer 1994, p.1-17 (PDF via Jstor)

Brown, Jane, The Modern garden, Princeton Architectural Press,SB465.B875 2000

Cialdella, Joseph Stanhope, Motor city green: a century of landscapes and environmentalism in Detroit, University of Pittsburgh Press, SB470.54.5 C53 2020

Constant, Caroline, The modern architectural landscape, University of Minnesota Press, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Deunk, Gerritjan, 20^th century garden and landscape architecture in the Netherlands, NAi Publishers, SB466.N47 D48 2002

Hunt, John Dixon, Gardens and the picturesque: studies in the history of landscape architecture, MIT Press, SB457.6.H865 1992

Leatherbarrow, David, Uncommon ground: architecture, technology, and topography, MIT Press, NA2540.5.L433 2002

McHarg, Ian, Design with Nature, John Wiley & Sons, HC110.E5M33 1992 (originally published 1969)

Mohn, Tanya, “The little-known women behind some well-known landscapes,” New York Times, October 21, 2020

Morton, Margaret & Diana Balmori, Transitory gardens, uprooted lives, Yale University Press, SB457.4.H64B34 1993

Treib, Marc, Modern landscape architecture: a critical review, MIT Press, SB469.23.M64 1993

Wrede, Stuart & William Howard Adams, Denatured visions: landscape and culture in the Twentieth century, Museum of Modern Art, SB470.5.D46 1991

Amidon, Jane, Radical landscapes: reinventing outdoor space, Thames & Hudson, SB472.A48 2001

Amoroso, Nadia, Digital landscape architecture now, Thames & Hudson, SB472.45.A667 2012

Balmori, Diana, Groundwork: between landscape and architecture, Monacelli Press, SB472.B345 2011

Crandell, Gina, Tree gardens: architecture and the forest, Princeton Architectural Press, SB475.9.F67C73 2013

Holden, Robert, New landscape design, Architectural Press, SB472.45.H65 2003

Landscape Architecture magazine (The Kappe Library has issues from 1984)

Ludwig, Ferdinand & Daniel Schönle, Growing architecture : how to design and build with trees, Birkhaüser, SB472.7 .L83 2023

Mostafavi, Mohsen, et al. Instigations: engaging architecture, landscape, and the city, Lars Müller, NA2300.H37I64 2012

Pozzi, Patrizia & Luca Molinari, Contemporary landscape: new tales and new visions, Rizzoli, SB470.5.P695 2011

Smout, Mark, et al., Augmented landscapes, Pamphet Architecture, #28, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Spellman, Catherine, Re-envisioning landscape/architecture, Actar, SB469.3.R42 2003

Topos – the international review of landscape magazine (the Kappe Library has issues from 2008)

Waldheim, Charles, Landscape Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Cialdella, Joseph Stanhope, Motor city green: a century of landscapes and environmentalism in Detroit, University of Pittsburgh Press, SB470.54.M5 C53 2020

City Parks Alliance (“established in fall 2000 by a nationwide group of urban parks administrators and advocates”)

Conway, Hazel, “Everyday landscapes: public parks from 1930 to 2000,” Garden history, Summer 2000, p. 117-134 (PDF via Jstor)

Crandell, Gina, Tree gardens: architecture and the forest, Princeton architectural Press, SB475.9.F67 C73 2013

Cranz, Galen, “Women in urban parks,” Signs, Spring 1980, p. 79-95 (PDF via Jstor)

Cranz, Galen, The politics of park design: a history of urban parks in America, MIT Press, SB482.A4C73 1982

Czerniak, Julia et al., Large parks, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

“Five creative urban park spaces that are helping to revitalize communities,” Urban land, July/August 2013, p. 71-81

Forsyth, Ann, et al., Designing small parks: a manual addressing social and ecological concerns, John Wiley & Sons, SB482.A4F68 2005

Hott, Lawrence & Diane Garey, Best planned city in the world: Olmsted, Vaux and the Buffalo Park System [videorecording], Hott Productions, SB472.45 .S78 2014 (Media shelf)

Low, Setha M., et al., Rethinking urban parks: public space and cultural diversity, University of Texas Press, 2005 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Mell, Ian, Green infrastructure planning: reintergrating landscape in urban planning, Lund Humphries, HT166 .M45 2019

New park design in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture & Urban Design, NA9060.L879 2011

Spirn, Anne Whiston, The granite garden: urban nature and human design, Basic Books, HT166.S638 1984

Cole, David N. & Laurie Yung, Beyond naturalness: rethinking park and wilderness stewardship in an era of rapid change, Island Press, 2010 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Eagles, Paul F. & Stephen F. McCool, Tourism in national parks and protected areas: planning and management, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, 2003 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Indigenous place names project, Anchorage Park Foundation

Kaiser, Harvey H., National park architecture sourcebook, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

McClelland, Linda Flint, Building the national parks: historic landscape design and construction, Johns Hopkins University Press, SB482.A4M3 1998

Patin, Thomas, Observation points: the visual poetics of national parks, University of Minnesota Press, 2012 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Ross-Bryant, Lynn, “Sacred sites: nature and nation in the U.S. national parks,” Religion and American Culture, Winter 2005, p. 31-62 (PDF via Jstor)

Tweed, William C., Uncertain path: a search for the future of national parks, University of California Press, 2010 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

AFRICA

Carney, Judith Ann & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff, In the Shadow of slavery: Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world, University of California Press, 2010 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Falade, J. B., “Yoruba palace gardens,” Garden history, Spring 1990, p. 47-56 (PDF via Jstor)

EAST ASIA 

Clunas, Craig, Fruitful Sites: garden culture in Ming dynasty China, Duke University Press, SB466.C5C6 1996

Hardie, Alison, “The Life of a Seventeenth-century Chinese garden designer: the biography of Zhang Nanyuan by Wu Weiye,” Garden history, Spring 2004, p. 137-140 (PDF via Jstor)

“History of Gardens in East Asia: Online resources” (Extensive links to resources from Dumbarton Oaks)

Keane, Peter Keane, The art of setting stones & other writings from the Japanese garden, Stone Bridge Press, SB455.K36 2002

Takei, Jirō & Marc P. Keane, Sakuteiki, visions of the Japanese garden: a modern translation of Japan's gardening classic, Tuttle, SB458.T334 2001

Treib, Marc & Ron Herman, A Guide to the gardens of Kyoto, Shufunotomo, SB466.J32K9287

Wong, Young-tsu, A Paradise lost: the imperial garden Yuanming Yuan, University of Hawai'i Press, 2000 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Yao, Tianxing, Classical Chinese Gardens, Foreign Language Press, SB457.55.C572 2003

Yim, Seock Jae, Stone walls and paths: a study of Korean architecture, Ewha University Press, TH2249.I6 2005

Yoon, Sang Jun & Jan Woudstra, “Advanced horticultural techniques in Korea: the earliest documented greenhouses,” Garden history, Summer 2007, p. 68-84 (PDF via Jstor)

EUROPE / WESTERN TRADITIONS

Jong, Erik de, et al, Landscapes of the imagination: designing the European tradition of garden and landscape architecture, 1600-2000, NAi Publishers, SB469.78.E85 J66 2008

Mosser, Monique & Georges Teyssot, The architecture of Western gardens: a design history from the Renaissance to the present day, MIT Press, SB466.E9A7313 1991

Watkin, David, The English vision: the picturesque in architecture, landscape, and garden design, Harper & Row, SB457.6.W37

Weiss, Allen S., Mirrors of infinity: the French formal garden and 17th-century metaphysics, Princeton Architectural Press, SB457.65.W4513 1995

MIDDLE EAST / ISLAMIC TRADITIONS

“Middle East Garden Traditions,” (Extensive links to resources from Dumbarton Oaks)

Ruggles, D. Fairchild, Islamic Gardens and Landscapes, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Ruggles, D. Fairchild, Gardens, landscape, and vision in the palaces of Islamic Spain, Pennsylvania State University Press, SB457.8.R845 2000

NORTH AMERICA

Allmendinger, Blake, "All about Eden," in Reading California: art, image and identity, University of California Press, NX510.C2R43 2000

Eckbo, Garrett, Public landscape: six essays on government and environmental design in the San Francisco Bay area, University of California Press, HT394.S25E28

Ellis, Clifton & Rebecca Ginsburg (editors), Cabin, quarter, plantation: architecture and landscapes of North American slavery, Yale University Press, E443 .C325 2010

Hise, Greg & William Francis Deverell, Eden by design: the 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew plan for the Los Angeles region, University of California Press, HT394.L67E34 2000

Kirby, Rosina Greene, Mexican landscape architecture: from the street and from within, University of Arizona Press, SB477.M6K57

Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth, “Perennially new: Santa Barbara and the origins of the California mission garden,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2010, p. 378-405 (PDF via Jstor)

Power, Nancy Goslee, et al., The Gardens of California: four centuries of design from mission to modern, C. Potter, SB466.U65C273 1995

Stilgoe, John R., The Common landscape of America, 1580 to 1845, Yale University Press, E169.1.S83

Teyssot, Georges, The American lawn, Princeton Architectural Press, SB433.A45 1999

Walker, Richard, Country in the city: the greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, University of Washington Press, 2009 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Williams, Ron, Landscape architecture in Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, SB470.55.C3 W55 2014

Zapatka, Christian & Mirko Zardini, The American landscape, Princeton Architectural Press, SB470.53.Z3713 1996

OCEANIA & PACIFIC ISLANDS

Henty, Carol & Ron Berg, For the people's pleasure: Australia's botanic gardens, Greenhouse Publications, QK73.A8H46 1989

SOUTH ASIA

Johnson-Roehr, Susan N., “Centering the Chārbāgh: the Mughal garden as design module for the Jaipur city plan,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2013, p. 28-47

Sharma, Jyoti P., “The British treatment of historic gardens in the Indian subcontinent,” Garden history, Winter 2007, p. 210-228 (PDF via Jstor)

Andrews, Malcolm, Landscape and Western art, Oxford University Press, N8213.A63 1999

Clark, Kenneth, Landscape Into Art, Harper & Row, ND1340.C55 1976

Costello, Bonnie, Shifting ground: reinventing landscape in modern American poetry, Harvard University Press, 2009 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Giblett, Rod & Juha Tolonen, Critical photography: photography and landscape, Intellect, 2012 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hardie, Alison & Duncan M. Campbell (editors), The Dumbarton Oaks anthology of Chinese garden literature, Dumbarton Oaks, SB318.34.C6 D86 2020

Le Dantec, Denise & Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Reading the French garden: story and history, MIT Press, SB451.36.F8L413 1990

Stafford, Barbara Maria, Voyage into substance : art, science, nature, and the illustrated travel account, 1760-1840, MIT Press, G468.S73 1984

Truniger, Fred, et al., Filmic mapping: documentary film and the visual culture of landscape architecture, Jovis Verlag, PN1995.9.D6T78 2012

Waldheim, Charles, et al., Composite landscapes: photomontage and landscape architecture, Hatje Cantz, TR660 .C59 2014

Williams, Raymond, The Country and the city, Oxford University Press, PR409.C5W5 1985

Andraos, Amale, et al., Above the pavement: the farm! Architecture & agriculture at P.F.1, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010 (ebook via Ebrary)

Chace, Helena, The factory in the garden: a history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age, Manchester University Press, SB451.36.G7 C48 2017

“Cultural and historical geographies of the arboretum,” Garden history, v. 35, 2007 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Gorgolewski, Mark, et al., Carrot City: creating places for urban agriculture, Monacelli Press, S494.5.U72G67 2011

Kohlmaier, Georg & Barna von Sartory, Houses of glass: a nineteenth-century building type, MIT Press, NA4140.K5813 1986

Malitz, Jerome & Seth Malitz, Interior landscapes: horticulture and design, W. W. Norton, SB419.25.M35 2002

Petschek, Peter, et al., Constructing shadows: pergolas, pavilions, tents, cables, and plants, Birkhäuser, SB472.C6613 2011

Saudan-Skira, Sylvia & Michel Saudan, Orangeries: palaces of glass, their history and development, Evergreen, NA8360.S2813 1998

Seferian, Haig & Claire Whitcomb, Hardscaping: high style, low maintenance outdoor spaces, McGraw-Hill, SB473.S465 2004

[Sustainability & urban agriculture] Volume #18, 2008 (Theme issue)

Treib, Marc, "Sculpture and gardens: a historical overview," Design Quarterly, #141, 1988, p. 43-58 (PDF via Jstor)

Van Veenhuizen, René, Cities farming for the future: urban agriculture for green and productive cities, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. 2006 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Arvidson, Adam Regn, Greening the landscape: strategies for environmentally sound practice, W. W. Norton, SB472.45.A78 2012

Austin, Richard L., Graphic standards for landscape architecture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, SB472.G73 1986

Burton, Martin, Irrigation management: principles and practices, Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, 2010 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Calkins, Meg, Sustainable sites handbook: a complete guide to the principles, strategies, and best practices for sustainable landscapes, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Craul, Timothy A. & Phillip J. Craul, Soil design protocols for landscape architects and contractors, John Wiley & Sons, SB472.45.C73 2006

Entwistle, Trudi & Edwin Knighton, Visual communication for landscape architecture, AVA Publishing, SB472.3.E57 2013

Harris, Charles W., Time-saver standards for landscape architecture, 2^nd ed, McGraw-Hill, SB475.9.S72T55 1998

Holden, Bob & Jamie Liversedge, Landscape architecture: an introduction, Laurence King Publishing, 2014 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

LaGro, James A., Site analysis: a contextual approach to sustainable land planning and site design, John Wiley & Sons, NA2540.5.L34 2008

Landscape Online (technology & products via “the largest landscape database on the Internet”)

Makhzoumi, Jata & Gloria Pungetti, Ecological landscape design and planning: the Mediterranean context, Spon, 1999 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

National Research Council, Urban stormwater management in the United States, National Academies Press, 2008 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Russ, Thomas H., Site planning and design handbook, McGraw-Hill, NA2540.5.R87 2002

Smith, S. W., Landscape irrigation: design and management, John Wiley & Sons, SB475.82.S55 1997

Strom, Steven et al., Site engineering for landscape architects, John Wiley & Sons, TH375.S77 1998

Sullivan, Chip & Marc Trieb, Garden and climate, McGraw-Hill, SB466.M48S85 2002

Zimmermann, Astrid, et al., Constructing landscape: materials, techniques, structural components, Birkhäuser, SB472.3.C667 2011

Bernhardt, Peter, Gods and goddesses in the garden: Greco-Roman mythology and the scientific names of plants, Rutgers University Press, 2008 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Burckhardt, Lucius, Why is landscape beautiful? The science of strollology, Birkhäuser, SB472.B87 2015

Cooper, David E., A Philosophy of gardens, Oxford University Press, 2006 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Harris, Dianne & D. Fairchild Ruggles (editors), Sites unseen: landscape and vision, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hicks, Dan, et al., Envisioning landscape: situations and standpoints in archaeology and heritage, Left Coast Press, 2007 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Hunt, John Dixon, Greater perfections: the practice of garden theory, University of Pennsylvania Press, SB454.3.P45H85 2000

Jackson, J. B., "Gardens to decipher and gardens to admire," The Necessity for ruins, University of Massachusetts Press, GF91.U6J32

"Landscape and the picturesque," in Charles Harrison, Art in theory, 1648-1815: an anthology of changing ideas, Blackwell, N6490.A78 2001 (Chapter 5-B)

Malpas, Jeff, et al (editors), The place of landscape: concepts, contexts, studies, MIT Press, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Moore, Charles W., et al., The Poetics of gardens, MIT Press, SB472.M64 1988

Price, Susan Davis, Growing home: stories of ethnic gardening, University of Minnesota Press, 2000 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Sanjuán, Clara Olóriz, Landscape as territory, Actar, SB468.37 .O46 2019

Shepheard, Paul, The cultivated wilderness, or, What is landscape? MIT Press, BH301.L3S55 1997

Smithson, Robert, The Collected Writings, University of California Press, N7445.2.S62A35 1996

Trieb, Marc, Austere gardens: thoughts on landscape, restraint, & attending, Oro Editions, SB472 .T7246 2016

Tuan, Yi-fu, Dominance & affection: the making of pets, Yale University Press, BF632.5.T83 1984

Whyte, W. H., The social life of small urban spaces, Conservation Foundation, HT153.W49

Arvidson, Adam Regn, Greening the landscape: strategies for environmentally sound practice, W. W. Norton, SB472.45.A78 2012

Be water wise (Metropolitan Water District of Southern California)

California Native Plant Society

Calkins, Meg, Sustainable sites handbook: a complete guide to the principles, strategies, and best practices for sustainable landscapes, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Conservation garden (Antelope Valley Resource Conservation District)

High Country Gardens (commercial nursery specializing in sustainable gardening)

Kratsch, Heidi A., Water-efficient landscaping in the intermountain West, Utah State University Press, 2010 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Las Pilitas Nursery (“California native plants are all we grow!”)

Makhzoumi, Jata & Gloria Pungetti, Ecological landscape design and planning: the Mediterranean context, Spon, 1999 (ebook via Proquest Ebook Central)

Pérez, Lorena Farras, Eco Design Outside: green outside the house, Firefly Books, TH4860.P47 2012

Principles of xeriscape design (from Arizona’s Water, Use it Wisely)

Slaney, Scott (editor), Stormwater management for sustainable urban environments, Imagaes Publishing, TD657 .S52 2016

Theodore Payne Foundation (“To promote and restore California landscapes, and habitats”)

Wild Ones (nation-wide advocates of “native plants, natural landscapes”)