Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture

The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture¿s increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical, historical, philosophical, and practice-related research in landscape architecture ¿ research that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called ¿nature¿. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever.

The twenty-five chapters of this edited collection bring together significant positions in current landscape architecture research under five broad themes ¿ History, Sites and Heritage, City and Nature, Ethics and Sustainability, Knowledge and Practice ¿ supplemented with a discussion of landscape architecture education. Prominent as well as up-and-coming contributors from landscape architecture and adjacent fields includ