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The Allotment Diaries
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2013; US$ 9.99Anyone whos ever spent their weekends, evenings and even lunchtimes at the allotment will delight in Kay Sextons stories of life at the Voodoo Plot and the entertaining characters that keep her amused throughout the year. As the plot thickens and the growers thrive or struggle to flourish, theres an abundance of year-round horticultural... more...
American Eden
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 13.99? American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.? ?Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge ?Informative and absolutely engrossing.? ?Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's Dome Garden... more...
Architecture and Nature
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 75.00Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award! The word 'nature' comes from natura , Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has... more...
The Artful Garden
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 40.00?I want to put the mystery back into the heart of garden design, where it needs to be. It?s what lures you in through the gate, keeps you moving through the landscape, and fills you with excitement along the way. The sense of mystery is what turns a mere display of plants, paths, and ornaments into an adventure.? ?James... more...
Australian Planting Design
CSIRO Publishing 2012; US$ 44.95This new edition identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale. more...
Beazley's Design and Detail of the Space between Buildings
Taylor and Francis 1990; US$ 200.00A new edition of a book widely regarded as a classic of landscape architecture, it deals with the 'bits' that go in between the different parts of the urban landscape. A completely updated text makes it suitable for both the professional and student. more...
Becoming a Landscape Architect
Wiley 2009; US$ 39.95Explore exciting options for a career in landscape architecture Blending aesthetics and environmental consciousness, landscape architecture is one of the fastest growing fields, according to the US Department of Labor. Becoming a Landscape Architect gives you a comprehensive survey of the field as it is practiced today, and explains how to get... more...
Changing Places
Techne Press 2011; US$ 67.50Changing Places investigates the process of change in European neighbourhoods over the last twenty years, both newly and purposely built neighbourhoods and redeveloped ones. It includes case studies of a number of European cities such as Marseille, Rome, Naples, Warsaw, Frankfurt, Athens, Copenhagen, Lisbon, and Ørestad. more...
Christopher Lloyd
Random House 2010; US$ 22.66Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all. His creation is the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, and it is a tribute to his vision and achievement that, after his death in 2006, the Heritage Lottery Fund made a grant of £4 million to help preserve it... more...
Cités horticoles en sursis? L'agriculture urbaine dans les grandes Niayes au Sénégal
International Development Research Centre 2001; US$ 20.00The production crisis in rural agricultural systems is stimulating urban agriculture and particularly, horticulture and livestock. These two sectors together absorb a fraction of the rural migrants, lead to the creation of cash activities, and bring in profits thanks to the farmers? proximity to urban markets. This study examines the case of Senegal?s... more...









