The Language of Landscape

The Language of Landscape argues that landscape is a form of language with its own grammar and metaphors and that, in shaping landscape, people express purpose, values, and ideas. The book call for change in the way we shape our environment. Its goal is to help people read landscapes as products of both nature and culture and to inspire them to envision new landscapes that restore nature and honor culture. This new e-edition includes new photographs, essays, and interactive maps.

Forthcoming in 2014.

e-book: $4.99

The Eye Is a Door: Landscape, Photography, and the Art of Discovery

The Eye Is a Door is about seeing as a way of knowing and photography as a means of thinking. For every person, the eye is their door to discovery. What one finds beyond the door depends not only on what is there but on what one wants to understand. What the author finds beyond her own eye’s door are landscapes, the stories they tell, and the ideas they represent. The book is for all who want to read landscape more acutely and to use the camera as a tool of discovery. To read excerpts, see the photos, and watch videos, see www.theeyeisadoor.com.

The Eye is a Door: Forthcoming March 2014

e-book $4.99

The Language of Landscape

The Language of Landscape argues that landscape is a form of language with its own grammar and metaphors and that, in shaping landscape, people express purpose, values, and ideas. The book call for change in the way we shape our environment. Its goal is to help people read landscapes as products of both nature and culture and to inspire them to envision new landscapes that restore nature and honor culture. This new e-edition includes new photographs, essays, and interactive maps.

Forthcoming in 2014.

e-book: $4.99

The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design

The Granite Garden presents, synthesizes, and applies knowledge from many disciplines to show how cities are part of nature and to demonstrate how they can be planned and designed in concert with natural processes rather than in conflict. Winner of the 1984 President’s Award of Excellence from the ASLA and deemed by the APA as “one of the essential books of planning,” the book is credited with having “touched off the ecological urbanism movement.” This new e-edition includes a new bibliography, new cases, and reflections on what has changed over the past 30 years.

Forthcoming in 2014.

e-book: $4.99