Some core Landscape Architecture books to read:

• Corner, J. and MacLean, A. 2000. Taking Measure Across the American Landscape. Yale
• Cureton, P. 2016. Strategies for Landscape Representation. Routledge
• Kombol, M. 2015. 30:30 Landscape Architecture. Phaidon (written by Meaghan Kombol who teaches design at University of Greenwich)
• Spiller, N. 2013. Drawing Architecture. Wiley/AD (written by Neil Spiller, Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape at University of Greenwich)
• Stewart, I. et al. 2014. Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture. Hatje Cantz

Some projects by leading Landscape Architects that you may find interesting:

• Cap De Creus, Girona by EMF*
• The High Line, New York City by Field Operations*
• Superkilen, Copenhagen by Topotek 1*
• Shouwburgplein, Rotterdam by West 8*
• Whiteinch Cross, Glasgow by Gross Max*
• Borneo Sporenberg, Amsterdam by West 8*
• Freshkills Park, Staten Island, New York by Field Operations*
• Eastern Curve, London by J & L Gibbons
• Oystertecture, New York City by Scape
• Detroit Future City, Detriot by Stoss

* Designers who have lectured at University of Greenwich since 2012.

Some other books that we are reading at the moment, include:

• Appleyard, D. 1965. The View from the Road. MIT Press
• CCCB. 2009. Cerda and the Barcelona of the Future: Reality versus Project. CCCB
• Czechowski, D. et al. 2014. Revising Green Infrastructure. CRC Press
• Corner, J. 1999. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Princeton Architectural Press
• Corner, J. 1996. Taking Measure Across the American Landscape. Yale University Press
• Duneier, M. 2001. Sidewalk. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Gandy, M. 2002. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in the City. MIT Press
• Goodwin, D. 2017. The Urban Tree. Routledge
• Graham, S. and Marvin, S. Splintering Urbanism. Routledge
• Jackson, J. B. 1984. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. Yale University Press
• Jacobs, J. 1969. Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House
• Low, S and Smith. N. 2006. Politics of Public Space. Routledge
• Lynch, K. 1960. The Image of the City. MIT Press
• McHarg, I. 1969. Design With Nature. Wiley
• Reed, C. and Lister, N. 2014. Projective Ecologies. Actar
• Sorkin, M. 1993. Local Code: Constitution of a City at Forty Two Degrees North Latitude. Princeton Architectural Press
• Stewart, I. et al. 2014. Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture. Hatje Cantz
• Thompson, I. 2014. Landscape Architecture – A very short introduction. Oxford
• Waldheim, C. 2006. Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princeton Architectural Press
• Wall, E and Waterman, T. 2017. Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays. Routledge
• Waterman, T. 2015. Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture. Bloomsbury (written by Tim Waterman who teaches history and theory at University of Greenwich)