Some core Landscape Architecture and Urban Design books to read:

• CCCB. 2009. Cerda and the Barcelona of the Future: Reality versus Project. CCCB
• Corner, J. and MacLean, A. 2000. Taking Measure Across the American Landscape. Yale
• Ivers, C. 2021. 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know. Birkhauser
• Kombol, M. 2015. 30:30 Landscape Architecture. Phaidon (written by Meaghan Kombol who teaches design at University of Greenwich)
• Sorkin M. 2001. Some Assembly Required. UoM Press
• Wall, E. 2020. The Landscapists. Wiley/Architectural Design (edited by Ed Wall who teaches design at University of Greenwich)
• Wall, E. and Waterman, T. 2009. Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design. Bloomsbury

Some projects by leading Landscape Architects and Urban Designers 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, Detroit by Stoss*

* Designers who have lectured at University of Greenwich

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

• Appleyard, D. 1965. The View from the Road. MIT Press
• Corner, J. 1999. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Princeton Architectural Press
• Cureton, P. 2016. Strategies for Landscape Representation. Routledge
• 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
• Jellicoe, G and Jellicoe, S. 1975. The Landscape of Man. Thames and Hudson
• 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

Five essays for Master students preparing to study at Greenwich:

• Advanced Landscapes by Ed Wall (2020)
• Reciprocal Landscapes by Jane Hutton (2013)
• No Design on Stolen Land by Pierre Belanger (2020)
• Unintentional landscapes by Matthew Gandy (2016)
• Representation and Landscape by James Corner (1992)