Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
About the Book Series
The series is explicitly designed for the publication of scholarly works in landscape and closely related disciplines, and is aimed at academic libraries across the world. Building on Routledge’s history of academic rigor and cutting edge research, the series will contribute to the rapidly expanding literature in all areas of landscape.
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Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Beata Dreksler, Jala Makhzoumi
September 30, 2025
This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture as an emerging profession in the region. The book also responds to the limitations of faulty translations of the ...
Contemporary Landscape Performance Methods and Techniques: Lessons from the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center
1st Edition
Edited
By Galen Newman, Rui Zhu, Dongying Li, Megan Barnes
October 14, 2024
This book defines, illustrates, applies, and explores current and future tools and methods for measuring landscape performance using the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center (HANC) as a case site, providing the most extensive, comprehensive description and application of existing landscape ...
Landscape and Utopia
1st Edition
By Jody Beck
October 07, 2024
This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered ...
Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape
1st Edition
By Teija Isohauta
August 26, 2024
Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architect’s landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which characterised his approach to and understanding of architecture as part of the wider environment. From the forests of his youth to sights from his travels...
Climate-Adaptive Design in High Mountain Villages: Ladakh in Transition
1st Edition
By Carey Clouse
October 09, 2023
Drawing from the unique context and climate of the Himalaya, this book highlights several innovative design interventions, shaped by a myriad of social, cultural, environmental, and political factors that have been employed in villages to combat climate change. Climate-Adaptive Design in High ...
Waste and Urban Regeneration: An Urban Ecology of Seoul’s Nanjido Post-landfill Park
1st Edition
By Jeong Hye Kim
May 31, 2023
Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relation to the urban ecology within the context of the city’s urban development during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The study ...
Reimagining Industrial Sites: Changing Histories and Landscapes
1st Edition
By Catherine Heatherington
March 04, 2020
The discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and ...
Landscape and Branding: The promotion and production of place
1st Edition
By Nicole Porter
June 16, 2017
Landscape and branding explores the way landscape is conceptualised, conceived, represented and designed by professionals in a brand-driven age. Landscape - incorporating tangible physical space as well as intangible concepts, narratives, images, and experiences of place - is constructed by a ...