SUGGESTED READING LIST

The following are "classics" even though some of these are recent books because they are seminal to the profession. Simply, the faculty think all landscape architects should know who these authors are and the basic messages of these books.

Bacon, Edmund.Design of Cities. Penguin Books, NY.1974.
Groth, Paul and Todd Bressi, eds. Understanding Ordinary Landscapes. Yale University Press, .1997.
Halprin, Lawrence. Cities. Reinhold Publishing Corporation. 1968.
Hester, Randolph T. Community Design Primer. Ridge Times Press, 1990.
Hough, Michael. 1995. Cities and Natural Process. Routledge Press.
Itten, Johanes. 1975. Design and Form. Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY.
Jackson, J. B. 1994. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. Yale University Press. New Haven.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1989 or any edition
Kaplan, Rachel, Stephen Kaplan, The Experience of Nature : A Psychological Perspective, Cambridge University Press,1989.
Kellert, Stephen R. and Edward O. Wilson, The Biophilia Hypothesis, Island Press, Washington, D. C., 1993.
Leopold, Aldo, Sand County Almanac, 1949 or any edition
Lynch, Kevin. A Theory of Good City Form. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1981.
Lynch, Kevin. What Time is this Place? Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972.
Marcus, Clare Cooper, House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home, Conari Press, Berkeley, 1995.
McHarg, Ian, Design with Nature, The Natural History Press, New York, 1969. recent paperback editions are ok.
Nabhan, Gary Paul and Stephen Trimble, The Geography of Childhood : Why Children Need Wild Places, Beacon Press, Boston, 1994.
Nash, Roderick, Wilderness and the American Mind, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1973 revised edition.
Spirn, Anne Whiston, Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, Basic Books, New York, 1984.
Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas Revised Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.
Whyte, William. The social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Washington DC: The Conservation Foundation. 1980.

These are books every first year BLA and MLA student should try to read as soon as possible.

Appleton, Jay. The Experience of Landscape Revised Edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Anderson, Eugene N, Ecologies of the Heart : Emotion, Belief, and the Environment, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
Beardsley, John. Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape. New York, Abbeville Press latest edition
Beatley, Timothy. Green Urbanism, Learning from European Cities. Washington D.C.; Island Press. 2000.
Birnbaum, Charles, ed. Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II: Making Postwar Landscapes Visible. Spacemaker Press, 2005.
Bosselmann, Peter. Representation of Places. 1998.
Burns, Carol J. and Andrea Kahn, eds. Site Matters. Routledge, 2005.
Ching, Francis.Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY.1996.
Condon, P. M. Ed. Sustainable Urban Landscapes: The Surrey Design Charrette. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. 1996.
Francis, Mark and Randolph T. Hester, Jr. The Meaning of Gardens. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
Glassie, Henry. Folk Housing in Middle Virginia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1975
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.
Herrington, Susan. On Landscape. Routledge, 2008.
Hood, Walter. Urban Diaries. Spacemaker. 1997.
Jackson, J.B. Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B. Jackson. Cambridge: University of Massachusetts Press. 1970.
Jackson, J.B. The Necessity of Ruins and other topics. Cambridge: University of Massachusetts Press. 1980.
Hough, Michael. Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
Kaplan, R., S. Kaplan and R. Ryan. With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature. Island Press. 1998.
McHarg, Ian and Frederick R. Steiner, ed.. The Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature. Island Press; New Edition, 2006
Moore, Charles W., William J. Mitchell and William Turnbull, Jr. The Poetics of Gardens. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.
Nassauer, Joan Iverson, Placing Nature, Culture and Landscape Ecology, Island Press, Washington, D. C. 1997.
Orr, David. Ecological Literacy Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, SUNY Press 1992
Potteiger, Matthew and Jamie Purinton. Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Stilgoe, John R. Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Thayer, Robert L., Gray World, Green Heart, Wiley, New York, 1994.
Trieb, M. Ed. 1993. Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA.
Van der Ryn, Sim & P. Calthorpe. Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns. San Francisco.

Eager, aggressive students should also try to become familiar with the material in these books as soon as possible

Abram, David, The Spell of the Sensuous, Pantheon, New York, 1996.
Baldwin, A. D., Jr.,et al., eds. Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes. University of Minnesota Press, 1993
Calthorpe, Peter The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. Princeton Architectural Press, 1993..
Carr, Ethan. Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma, (University of Massachusetts Press) 2007
Creese, Walter L. The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings.Princeton University, Press, 1985.
Czerniak, Julia, ed. Large Parks. Princeton Architectural Press., 2007.
Doppelt, B., et. al. 1993. Entering the Watershed: A New Approach to Save America's River Ecosystems. Island Press. Washington, DC.
Dramstad, W. E. et. al. 1996. Landscape Ecology: Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land Use Planning. Island Press.
Dreiseitl, Herbert, and Dieter Grau, Karl Ludwig. 2002. Waterscapes: planning, building, and designing with water. Basel: Birkhauser
.Farr, Doug. Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design with Nature. Hooken: Wiley and sons. 2007.
Gehl, Jan. Life Between buildings. Danish Architectural Press, 6th edition. 2006.
Gehl, Jan. and Lars Gemzoe. Public Spaces, Public Life. Danish Architectural Press and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. 1996.
Girling, Cynthia and Ron Kellett. Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods. Washington D.C.: Island Press. 2005.
Glassberg, David. Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Gunderson et al.. Eds. 1995. Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions. Columbia University Press. NY
Harris, Dianne and D. Fairchild Ruggles, editors, Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
Harris, Dianne. Maybeck's Landscapes: Drawing in Nature. William Stout Publishers, San Francisco, 2005.
Harrison, Robert P. Forests The Shadow of Civilization, Chicago U Chicago, Press 1992
Hawken, Paul. 1993. Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. Harper Collins, NY.
Jacobs, Allan. Great Streets. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped. Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press, 1991.
Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Nabhan,Gary Paul, Cultures of Habitat, Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1997
Mugerauer, R. and L. Manzo. Environmental dilemmas : ethical decision making. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2008.
Riley, Ann L., Restoring Streams in Cities : A Guide for Planners, Policy Makers, and Citizens, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1998.
Sanoff, Henry. Integrating Programming, Evaluation, and Participation in Design. Hong Kong: Avebury, 1992.
Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. New York, Alfred A Knopf 1995
Thompson, George F. and Frederick R. Steiner, Ecological Design and Planning, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996.
Stein, C.S. Towards New Towns for America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1957.
Streatfield, David, California Gardens: Creating a New Eden, Abbeville Press, New York London Paris 1994
Swaffield, S. R.Theory in landscape architecture : a reader. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002.
Waldheim, Charles, ed. The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
Walker P., and M. Simo.1996. The Invisible Garden: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape. MIT Press. Cambridge
Way, Thaisa. Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century. University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Zeisel, John. Inquiry by Design: Tools for Environment-Behavior Research. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984.