California Gardens: Creating a New Eden, New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1994.
Included on The American Horticultural Society's list of the '75 Great American Garden Books in 75 Years' designated in observance of its 75th anniversary. The book surveys California garden design from the Spanish occupation through the late1960s. It is organized around a simple model of cultural evolution that acknowledges regionalist impulses.

"The Olmsteds and the Landscape of the Mall." Chapter in The Mall in Washington 1791-1991. Published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. by University Press of New England, pp. 117-142, Vol. 30, Studies in the History of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Symposium Papers XIV, 1991.
This book is a publication of the papers of a symposium organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the Mall in Washington, DC. This chapter documents and analyzes the contribution to this design made by Frederick Law Olmsted Senior and Junior. This little known chapter in the careers of both members of the Olmsted family distinguishes their fundamentally different approaches to the design of the Mall.

"Arts and Crafts Gardens." in Fronia Simpson (ed.) The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life. New York, London and Paris: Abbeville Press (1993) pp. 35-54, 1993.
While the importance of California as a locus of the American Arts and Crafts movement has been acknowledged for some time, the role of the garden has been little studied as part of this phenomenon. This chapter is the first serious attempt to examine the garden as a part of California's contribution to American Arts and Crafts. It develops a typological analysis.

75 Years of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley. An Informal History. Part I: the First 50 Years, by Michael Laurie and David C. Streatfield. Berkeley, CA. Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1988.
The Department of Landscape Architecture the University of California, Berkeley was the first department to be founded on the west coast in1913. This book surveys the first 50 years of the department's history, documenting the changing methods of instruction and the distinguished body of students against economic, political and technological developments at the state and national levels.

Articles and Essays

Works in Progress:
                                   
Essay, "Divergent Threads in the Gardens of Greene and Greene," in Edward R./ Bosley  and Anne Mallek (eds.) New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene to be published by Merrel  iin 2008 in connection with an exhibition on Greene and Greene at The Huntington Library, San Marino.

Commissioined Introductory Essay  Christpher Grampp,  From Yard to Garden:  The Domestication of American Home Grounds since 1860 .

Commissioned Introductory  Essay "Gender and the History of Landscape Architecture,' in Linda Jewell and Louise Mozingo (eds.)  A  Century of Women: Evaluating Gender in the Landscape to be published by University of Virginia Press

 Essay  for book on John Charles Olmsted and The Pacific Northwest Region by Joan Hockaday  to be published by  Washington State University Press

Entries on William Hertrich, Charles Gibbs Adams, and John McLaren in the 2nd Volume of Charles Birnbaum (ed.) Pioneers of American Landscape Design   to be publsihed by McGraw Hill

Published

2007
Streatfield, David C.. Orto  Botanico,' Padua: A  Renaisance  Jewel," Washington Park Arboretum Bulletiin
69(1)

Streatfield, David C. with Anne Christoph. Sicilian, Iris and Valencia Courts, Scripps College,  Restoration Report for the Grounds and Buildings Committee, Scripps College, Claremont, California

2006
_____ "How  I Became A Gardener,"  Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin  Vol. 68 (2)  Summer, 2006:  2
                          
_____ 12 Entries in Patrick Taylor (ed.) Oxford Book of Gardens , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

_____ "The First American Botanic Garden: John Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia," Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin    Vol. 67 (4) (Winter, 2006):  8-                                                         11 +28-29.

2005        
'Streatfield, David C. "Isabelle Greene and  the California Garden," in Kurt  G. F. Helfrich (ed.)  Isabelle Greene: Shaping Place in the Landscape  Santa Barabra, Cal:  The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, pp. 11-26.

'Streatfield, David C."Californio Culture and Landscapes 1894-1942: Entwining Myth and  Romance with Preservation," in Design With Culture  Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes (eds.)  Charlottesville, VA :  The University of Virginia Press. PP.103-135.

Streatfield, David C."the Dunn Gardens: Olmstedian Picturesque and Robinsonain Woodland Gardening," Pacific Horticulture  Vol. 66 (3) July /Aug /Sept.13-21., 2005 :

2004        
'Streatfield, David C. Book review of Peter Willis  Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden  Newcastle-upon -Tyne, Elysium Press Publishers  Landscape Journal   22 (2), 2003: 163-163.

2003        
Streatfield, David C. Book Review of Anne S.  Cunningham, Crystal Palaces. Garden Conservatories of  the United States.  New York:  Princeton Architectural Press.  Public Gaden

2003        
Streatfield, David C. "from 'Picturesque' to 'Gardenesque':  Gardens by the Omsted Brothers in Western Washington, Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin  Fall 2003:  4-9.

2002        
Streatfield, David C. Essays, "Gudmund Nyelund Brandt, 1878-1945;"  "Thomas Dolliver Church, 1902-1978;" "Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens;"  "Stanford University;" in Candace A. Shoemaker (ed.)  Encyclopedia of Gardens. History and Design   (Chicago:  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2002)Vol. I pp. 184-186;  293-295; Vol. II pp. 615-617; Vol III. pp. 1252-1254.

2000        
Streatfield, David C. Book Review of Mark Laird The Flowering of The English Garden:  Ornamental Planting Design in English Pleasure Grounds1720-1800    Philadelphia, PA:  University of Pennsylvania Press in Landscape Forum   2 :  36-37
 
 Streatfield, David C. Pioneers  of  American Landscape  Design :  An Encyclopedia    Charles A. Birnbaum and Robin Karson (eds.)  Lockwood  deForest, pp. 92-95;  William Hammond Hall ,PP 159-162;  Edward Huntsman-Trout, pp. 184-188;  and Francis Townsend Underhill  pp. 382-402  New York:  Van Nostrand in association withNational Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and the Library of American Landscape History  by  Van Nostrand

1999     
Streatfield, David C. Entry on Thomas Church in American National Biography   (ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes), New York: Oxford University Press, Vol 4; 874-875
 
Streatfield, David C. Book Review  of Linda Flint McClelland Building  the National Parks  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press (1998) Pacific Historical  Review.
 
Streatfield, David C. Book Review of Thomas D. Church, Grace Hall, Michael Laurie Gardens Are For People  (3rd Edition)  Berkeley: University of California Press (1995)  The Massachusetts Journal of Garden History   6 (Fall) :  54

1998        
Streatfield, David C. "The Resonance of Japan in  Pacific Northwest Gardens"
Washington Park Arboretum Journal    60 (1):   2-5 

1996        
Streatfield, David C. "The Challenges and Opportunies of Garden and Landscape History  in the Pacific Northwest-I I" Pacific  Northwest  Garden History  Society   Journal  1 (2):  9-10
       
Streatfield, David C. "The Challenges and Opportunies of Garden and Landscape History in the Pacific Northwest" Pacific Northwest  Garden History  Society   Journal  1 (1):  6-8

Streatfield, David C. "An address on the History of Gardens and Landscapes in California"  Eden   1 (1):  1-
 
Streatfield, David C.Book Review of Humphry Repton: The Red Books  for Brandsbury and Glemham Hall, with an Introduction by Stephen Daniels, 1994.  Washington D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.  Landscape Journal   15[1]:  72-73

Streatfield, David C."Garden at Thurlow Lodge."  Chapter  in book on Thurlow Lodge to be published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada

1995        
Streatfield, David C."Francis Townsend Underhill," in Charles Birnbaum and Julie K Fix (eds.) Pioneer s of American Landscape  Design  II:    An Annotated Bibliography Washington D.C., U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources:  Preservation Assistance Division; Historic Landscape Initiative, pp. 143-145
 
Streatfield, David C. "The Influence of Japan Upon Gardens in California and the Pacific Northwest," in Robin Karson (ed.) Master s of  American Garden Design IV : proceedings of the Garden Conservancy symposium held March 10,1994 at the Paine Webber Building in New York , New York, Cold Spring, N.Y.:  The Garden Conservancy, pp. 39-49

"Art and Nature in the English Landscape Garden: Design Theory and Practice, 1700-1818" in Landscape in the Gardens and Literature of Eighteenth Century England, pp. 3-87. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981.
Much recent garden history scholarship has focussed on the 18th century English Landscape Garden. Surprisingly none of this examined the relation between design theory and practice. This essay, which was delivered at a symposium organized by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA, was the first attempt to examine this relationship

"Landscape Design in Washington State" in A Guide to Architecture in Washington by Woodbridge, Montgomery and Streatfield, pp. 45-62. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 1980.
This short essay was the first national assessment of the significance to landscape design contribution made by professional designers from the initial pioneer settlement to the present

"Evolution of the Southern California Landscape: I - Settling Into Arcadia" in Landscape Architecture, Vol. 66: 39-46, 1976.
This series of articles documented the history of landscape architecture in California from the period of Spanish settlement through the 1930's. It presented much new scholarship and established a model for regionally oriented landscape history. The third article in the series was awarded the ASLA's Bradford Williams Medal.

Early Warning System: The Santa Cruz Mountains Regional Pilot Study, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1970.
Funded by a small Ford Foundation grant this prototypical study presented a conceptually simple analytical model designed to provide physical planners with a usable method for evaluating the seriousness of design proposals and developing anticipatory planning policies. It became a seminal work in American landscape planning.