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Landscape

1. Dams

   Christine Macy

   A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States.More

2. Parks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape

   Lynden B. Miller

   An inspirational and practical book about the benefits of enhancing cities with well-planted gardens, parks, and streets.More

3. Hidcote: The Making of a Garden

   Ethne Clarke, Roy Strong

   Revised edition

   A new and enlarged edition of the standard reference on an internationally revered English garden and its designer.More

4. Inspired by Nature: Animals: The Building/Biology Connection

   Alejandro Bahamón, Patricia Pérez

   A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.More

5. Green Roofs in Sustainable Landscape Design

   Steven L. Cantor, Steven Peck

   A popular design trend, green roofs make private and public buildings inviting and environmentally friendly.More

6. Inspired by Nature: Minerals: The Building/Geology Connection

   Alejandro Bahamón, Patricia Pérez

   Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture.More

7. The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City

   Patrick Blanc, Gregory Bruhn, Jean Nouvel, Et Al.

   The secrets of plants that cling, grip, and climb, from the inventor of the vertical garden.More

8. Inspired by Nature: Plants: The Building/Botany Connection

   Alejandro Bahamón, Alex Campello, Patricia Pérez

   A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.More

9. A Field Guide to Sprawl

   Dolores Hayden, Jim Wark

   Reprint

   A visual lexicon of the colorful slang, from alligator investment to zoomburb, that defines sprawl in America.More

10. Inquiry by Design: Environment/Behavior/Neuroscience in Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Planning

    John Zeisel, John P. Eberhard

    This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches.More

11. Canals

    Robert J. Kapsch

    A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system.More

12. Remarkable Trees of the World

    Thomas Pakenham

    "A stunning volume" (Time) and the most magnificent book on the world's trees published in years.More

13. Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest: Architecture and Landscape Design 1856-1940

    Kim Coventry, Daniel Meyer, Arthur H. Miller

    On Lake Michigan’s North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city’s bustle during the Gilded Age.
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14. Your House, Your Garden: A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design

    Gordon Hayward, Janet Fredericks, Richard Felber

    A breakthrough in inspiring yet practical do-it-yourself garden and landscape design, including dozens of detailed plans.More

15. Wetland Design: Principles and Practices for Landscape Architects and Land-Use Planners

    Robert L. France

    Wetlands combine the beauty of both aesthetic form and ecological function in a way that few other landforms can match.More