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Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces

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Ideas of Order: A Formal Approach to Architecture

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Site Engineering for Landscape Architects

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Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards

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Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

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Illustrated History of Landscape Design

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Landscapes in History, 2nd Edition One Volume

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Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture

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Manual of Woody Landscape Plants Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propogation and Uses

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The Course of Landscape Architecture: A History of our Designs on the Natural World, from Prehistory to the Present

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The first significant history of human intervention on the landscape since Geoffrey Jellicoe’s Landscape of Man, originally published in 1975In many ways the history of civilization is a history of humans’ relationship with nature. Christophe girot sets out to chronicle this history, drawing on all aspects of mankind’s creativity and ingenuity.