Author Description

"Over the last decade the concept of "landscape" has dramatically changed. The professionals working in this field have gained recognition and a more important role by successfully developing their research alongside the evolution of art, city planning and public space. References to the practice of landscape design can be found in urban planning, in projects that reconstruct large disused areas, in the design of public spaces, parks and private gardens, in Land Art and in photography. This discipline is favoured by an increase in planning opportunities and by theoretical reflections, which, urged by the topic of sustainability and environmental recovery, has provoked a major revision in planning and a new sensibility to it." "This dictionary illustrates the different ways of understanding landscape and the art of gardens, and provides the reader with a key interpretation of the various approaches to a discipline that has introduced a new dimension in the physical transformation of our environment. It documents the surprising extent of the planning experience and profiles world-renowned architects, engineers, landscape architects, artists and photographers. This volume will be an invaluable reference for anyone involved in urban planning, public art and landscape architecture."--BOOK JACKET.