Skip to Main Content

Landscape architecture: Specialized resources on related subtopics

Recommended resources on the design and maintenance of landscapes and gardens worldwide, from prehistory to now, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

Hartman, John Richard, et al., Pirone's tree maintenance, 7th ed, Oxford University Press, 2000 (ebook via Ebrary)

Margaret, Elizabeth, Practical manual for botany, New Age International, 2008 (ebook via Ebrary)

Pakenham, Thomas, Remarkable trees of the world, W. W. Norton, SD383.P367 2002

Reichard, Sarah H., Conscientious gardener: cultivating a garden ethic, University of California Press, 2011 (ebook via Ebrary)

Robinson, Nick, Planting Design Handbook, Ashgate, 2004 (ebook via Ebrary)

Thomas, Peter, Trees: Their Natural History, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (ebook via Ebrary)

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 and facades,” Detail (English Edition), November 2012, p. 63-65 (PDF via ArtSource)

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 (HTML full text via Avery Index)

Pendola, Rocco, ”It takes a wall,” Planning, August/September 2009, p. 36 (PDF via ArtSource)

Seward, Aaron, “The grass ceiling,” Architect, November 2011, p. 50-55 (PDF via Avery Index)

Walls that are a wonder,” Urban Green File, December 2012, (PDF via ArtSource)

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 Ebrary)

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

Harrison, Robert Pogue, Gardens: an essay on the human condition, University of Chicago Press, 2008 (ebook via Ebrary)

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

Pizzoni, Filippo, The garden: a history in landscape and art, Rizzoli, SB466.E9P5913 1999

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 (ebook via Ebrary)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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 landscapesPamphet Architecture, #28, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 (ebook via Ebrary)

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 Ebrary)

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)

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 Ebrary)

“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

Hardy, Hugh, “The romance of abandonment: industrial parks,” Places, Fall 2005, p. 32-37 (PDF via ArtSource)

Knack, Ruth Eckdish, “Parks in tough times,” Planning, November 2009, p. 22-27 (PDF via ArtSource)

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

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 Ebrary)

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 Ebrary)

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

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 Ebrary)

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 Ebrary)

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

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 Ebrary)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Rundel, Philip W., Introduction to the plant life of Southern California: coast to foothills, University of California Press, QK149.R86 2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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 Ebrary)

Giblett, Rod & JuhaTolonen, Critical photography: photography and landscape, Intellect, 2012 (ebook via Ebrary)

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

Wells, Liz, Land matters: landscape photography, culture and identity, I. B. Tauris, 2011 (ebook via Ebrary)

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)

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 Ebrary)

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 Ebrary)

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

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, 2nd edMcGraw-Hill, SB475.9.S72T55 1998

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 Ebrary)

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

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

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 (ebook via Ebrary)

Corner, James & Alan Balfour, Recovering landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999 (ebook via Ebary)

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

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, The place of landscape: concepts, contexts, studies, MIT Press, 2011 (ebook via Ebrary)

McIntosh, Christopher, Gardens of the gods: myth, magic and meaning in horticulture, I. B. Tauris, 2005 (ebook via Ebrary)

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

Potteiger, Matthew & Jamie Purinton, Landscape narratives: design practices for telling stories, John Wiley & Sons, SB472.45.P68 1998

Price, Susan Davis, Growing home: stories of ethnic gardening, University of Minnesota Press, 2000 (ebook via Ebrary)

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

Taylor, Lisa, A Taste for gardening: classed and gendered practices, Ashgate, 2008 (ebook via Ebrary)

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

Weiss, Allen S., Unnatural horizons: paradox and contradiction in landscape architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1998 (ebook via Ebrary)

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 Ebrary)

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 Ebrary)

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 Ebrary)

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)

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

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

Recommended for all architectural research

Please note

  • These guides are intended to provide initial orientation, and suggest a variety of different lines of investigation—not take the place of individual research.
  • All the resources cited here--print and digital--are available through the Kappe Library at SCI-Arc.Items not available at SCI-Arc are not included.
  • Surveys covering multiple projects are preferred over monographic studies focusing on specific works or individuals.
  • Resources on Los Angeles and Southern California are stressed.
  • Proprietary digital resources (Avery Index, Oxford Art Online, ArtStor, etc) can be accessed on-campus at SCI-ARC via any SCI-Arc internet provider. Off-campus they can be accessed 24/7 via the Kappe Library proxy server, and a valid SCI-Arc Network username and password.

The Kappe Library at SCI-Arc

The Kappe Library hours:
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday: 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Wednesday & Friday : 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday: Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday: Noon to 10:00 p.m.
 
Access Kappe Library online resources:
 
Be sure to activate EZProxy to access all proprietary databases: