The New European Landscape

An appraisal of landscape design in Europe, featuring some 60 key examples from leading practices. This book brings together the work of leading European practitioners and includes examples characteristic of our time, such as commercial and industrial sites, urban parks, road schemes and rural developments. It is an informative reference source, giving information on scheme size, costs, local conditions, plant lists, hard materials, the client and his brief. Landscape design is one of the major European arts. From its origins in embellishing the palaces of kings and princes in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East it reached high peaks of development in the villas of 16th-century Italy, the chateaux of 17th-century France and the country houses of 18th-century Britain. It subsequently became an important aspect of public developments in town planning and urban parks. In this book, Michael Lancaster and his contributors concentrate on European developments that provide an important contribution to 20th-century design. This book should appeal to landscape architects, architects, planners and urban designers.