The Planting Design Handbook, 3rd Edition

Since the first edition was published in 1992, Nick Robinson’s The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. It remains one of the few titles written by a practicing landscape architect and educator who is also a horticulturalist and accomplished plantsman, and which deals with the application of planting design on a large scale in landscape architecture and urban design projects. The Planting Design Handbook is distinctive for its elegant integration of an ecological approach with an understanding of visual and spatial composition. It emphasizes the role of vegetation layers and designed plant communities in complex and diverse plant assemblages for all kinds of sites and uses. This expanded and comprehensively updated third edition still provides a complete examination of principles and practice of design for public, institutional and private landscapes. It takes account of developments in theory and practice, especially in the use of perennials, and reflects a variety of media and approaches current in landscape architecture and design. All chapters have been revised and re-written to ensure updated references and new references have been added. Many new photographs of planting and projects around the world have been included, with examples of current professional drawings to illustrate the design process. It is generously illustrated, including a colour section and the beautifully detailed line drawings of the Chinese architect and painter Jia-Hua Wu.

Table of Contents

PART I PRINCIPLES
Chapter 1 Why Design?
Chapter 2 Plants As A Medium For Design
Chapter 3 Spatial Characteristics Of Plants
Chapter 4 Creating Spaces With Plants
Chapter 5 Composite Landscape
Chapter 6 Visual Properties Of Plants
Chapter 7 Visual Composition
Chapter 8 Plant Assemblages
Chapter 9 Ecological And Horticultural Factors

PART II PROCESS
Chapter 10 Design Methodology

PART III PRACTICE
Chapter 11 Large-Scale Planting
Chapter 12 Small-Scale Planting