List of illustrations

1 Aerial view of Central Park, New York City

© Aerial Archives/Alamy

2 (a) Panoramic ‘before’ view and (b) Panoramic ‘after’ view, from Humphry Repton’s Red Book for Antony House, c.1812

(a) Panoramic ‘before’ view, from the Red Book for Antony House, c.1812 (w/c on paper), Repton, Humphry (1752–1818)/Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library; (b) Panoramic ‘after’ view, from the Red Book for Antony House, c.1812 (w/c on paper), Repton, Humphry (1752–1818)/Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library

3 Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

© Glowimages.com

4 Thomas Church’s plan for Kirham Garden, 1948

© Thomas D. Church Collection/UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

5 The Donnell Garden and Pool, by Thomas Church

© Thomas D. Church Collection/UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives

6 A modern sustainable urban drainage system in Durango, Colorado. (Landscape architects: Design Workshop, Denver, Colorado)

ASLA Award recipient Glacier Club by Design Workshop, photograph by: D. A. Horchner/DesignWorkshop

7 Trudi Entwistle’s ‘Apple Heart’ (Turku, Finland, 2008)

Photograph by Jan-Erik Andersson. www.trudientwistle.com

8 The Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Australia

Photograph by Jasmine Fairhurst

9 The Duisburg Nord Landschaftspark in Germany

© Glowimages.com

10 Zone of Theoretical Visibility plot for the Ridge Solar Farm near Wellingborough, prepared by Landscape Design Associates, 2013

LDA Design

11 The High Line, New York City

© Ray Warren NYC/Alamy