This is a celebrated body of work, long out of print. It is based on lectures presented internationally to European and American professional societies but intended as a complete survey. The book provides comprehensive coverage of major aspects of modern landscape philosophy, design and practice and is illustrated throughout with photographs, original pictures and drawings.

Table of Contents

Part 1: the Italian garden of the Renaissance; one hundred and fifty years of English landscape; the search for a paradise garden; ourselves and history; building in the landscape; motorways; scale, diversity and place. Part 2: landscape from art; water, space for play; Christ Church meadow, Oxford; the route of M4; reflections from a Japanese garden; square one. Part 3: the landscape of symbols; the landscape of allegory; a classical landscape for Cheltenham; Sark; the London Park; journey to Kashmir; the "movement" movement in art and landscape.