Landscape

Routledge Landscape publishes books for students, academics and professionals. Our books cover topics across landscape architecture, garden design, environmental design and landscape history, and forms one of the largest lists of landscape books anywhere. So whether you’re looking to find out information on the latest landscape architectural theory, how to design a specific landscape or how to utilize drawing in your designs, we have a book for you.

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Socially Restorative Urbanism: The theory, process and practice of Experiemics

In this book the authors argue for and develop socially restorative urbanism – a new conceptual framework laying the foundations for innovative ways of thinking about the relationship between the urban spatial structure and social processes to re-introduce a more explicit people-centered element into urban place-making and its adaptation. Learn more...
Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications

In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe, capturing important advancements in three areas: theory, methods and application. In a wide range of conceptual and applied ways, the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge, identify significant advances and point to areas for future research. Learn more...

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The Skycourt and Skygarden: Greening the urban habitat

Using graphics and full color images throughout, the author explores 40 current and upcoming skycourt and skygarden projects from around the world, including the Shard (London), Marina Bay Sands (Singapore), the Shanghai Tower (China) and the Lotte Tower (South Korea). Read more...
Landscape, Well-Being and Environment

This edited work consists of a collection of studies which embrace different aspects of environment, landscape and well-being to consider current approaches to well-being research and practice that fall outside the traditional concepts of well-being as part of medical research, making links with architecture, landscape design, environmental perception, social interaction and environmental sustainability. Read more...

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Professional

Coming Soon in 2014…

At the start of 2014 we’re releasing two new titles for professional landscape architects and designers – The Skycourt and Skygardens and Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning. Both available for pre-order now.
Browse our Online Catalog for Built Environment Professionals

We are pleased to bring you all our professional titles in one place, covering topics ranging from Architecture to Urban Design and Real Estate to Landscape, in our Built Environment Books for Professionals Online Catalog.

View selected publishing highlights on the front page of the catalog, or simply click on the subject area you are interested in on the left hand side of your screen to see a full list of books in that area. You can find more details of these books and many more at www.routledge.com/builtenvironment, where you can also see all our latest news and sign up to receive our free newsletters.

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Research & Reference

NEW Architecture and Landscape Architecture Research and Reference Online Catalog

Our Architecture and Landscape Architecture Research and Reference online catalog has just gone live.

The catalog features our new titles, as well as our bestselling backlist collections of relevant and popular works. You will find whatever you need to further your own research or professional interests, challenge and support your students, or to provide essential reference materials for your institutional library.

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Spon’s External Works and Landscape Price Book 2013 (September 2012)

This year’s special focus is on water related issues.

Now in its 32nd edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2013 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.

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General Interest

Join us at CELA 2014!

Routledge is delighted to announce that we will be attending the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference (CELA) this month.
A Video with Tom Turner on Garden Design, Ideas, and History

Tom Turner edits the Gardenvisit.com website and teaches on the undergraduate and Masters programmes in garden history and landscape architecture at the University of Greenwich in London. He is also the author of British Gardens, European Garden s, Asian Gardens, and Garden History. In this video he presents garden history in general--concerning how garden design has been the result of the interplay of ideas of art, religion, philosophy, planting, construction, and much else. His video ends with a statement on the growing importance of sustainable garden design.

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News

Rod Barnett Gives Annual Olmsted Lecture at Harvard GSD

This year author Rod Barnett (Emergence in Landscape Architecture, 2013) gave the annual Olmsted lecture at Harvard GSD. If you didn’t attend, the whole lecture is available on YouTube now. Rod discusses the main topic of the book, emergence, and in the lecture his focus is on non-linear landscapes in particular. bit.ly/HFgDwf
Sir Peter Hall On How To Fix The UK’s Domestic Architecture

The following article is by British urbanist, town planner, and geographer Peter Hall. As Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at University College London, and President of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association, Hall is internationally renowned for his studies on all aspects of cities and regions. He recently published the book Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism.

The entire article can be found here.

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Course Guides

The courses below offer a listing of the most current textbooks from Routledge Landscape. You can also continue browsing our complete catalog of textbook options. If you'd like to consult with one of our representatives, browse our contact listings.