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. 1974. Design of Cities. Penguin Books, NY.
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 and Stephen Kaplan, The Experience of Nature : A Psychological Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 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
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.

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
Ching, Francis. 1996 Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY.
Condon, P. M. Ed. 1996. Sustainable Urban Landscapes: The Surrey Design Charrette. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. Canada.
Francis, Mark and Randolph T. Hester, Jr. The Meaning of Gardens. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
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. 1998. With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature. Island Press. Washington, DC.
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. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
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 and Peter 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.
Calthorpe, Peter. 1993. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. Princeton Architectural Press, NY.
Creese, Walter L. The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, Press, 1985.
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.
Gunderson et al.. Eds. 1995. Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions. Columbia University Press. NY
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.
Nabhan, Gary Paul, Cultures of Habitat, Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1997
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.
Walker P., and M. Simo.1996. The Invisible Garden: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape. MIT Press. Cambridge
Zeisel, John. Inquiry by Design: Tools for Environment-Behavior Research. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984.