College
College of Architecture & the Built Environment
Degree
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
Campus
East Falls
Format
On Campus
Credits
134 - 137
Duration
4 Years
Contact Information
Program
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Links & Readings
Landscape Architecture Informational Links
- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
- Landscape Architecture Magazine
- GAP Gardens - Garden & Plant Collection
- ASLA - Pennsylvania Delaware Chapter
- Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)
- Landscape Performance Series (by LAF)
- Landzine - Landscape Architecture Platform
- Landscape Architects Network (LANd8)
- World Landscape Architect (WLA)
- Landscape Architect
- Green Roofs
- The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
- Sustainable Sites Initiative
Recommended Readings
The following titles are linked to Amazon only as a conveinence, not necessarily as formal endorsement.
- Design with Nature, by Ian McHarg
- A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
- Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, by Michael Dirr, Hon. ASLA
- Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv
- A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander
- The Image of the City, by Kevin Lynch
- Bringing Nature Home, by Douglas Tallamy and Rick Darke
- The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, by Witold Rybczynski, Hon. ASLA
- Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted, by Justin Martin
- Design for Ecological Democracy, by Randolph T. Hester, Jr., FASLA
- Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
- Design for Human Ecosystems, by John Lyle and Joan Woodward, FASLA
- Futures by Design: The Practice of Ecological Planning, by Doug Aberley
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, by Terry Tempest Williams
- Gardening with Nature, by James van Sweden
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues (Public Interest Design Guidebooks) by Lisa M. Abendroth
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
- Gardens Are For People, by Thomas Church
- The Education of a Gardener, by Russell Page
- The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession, by Andrea Wulf
- The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, by Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA