The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, enco….

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts..

The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and….

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens..

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere..

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of bui….

Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all confli….

In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the s….

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past..

Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriate….

Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are p….

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant..

Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will becom….