In this article, the professionalization of landscape architecture is placed into a chronological
framework and analyzed within the context of the literature on professions …

In mid-to late-nineteenth-century American history, there was a fairly uniform evolution
of'occupations' that developed into specialised'professions'; the process of which has long …

This article describes the shaping of the modern landscape architecture profession in
Western Europe through the lens of international congresses and associations that took …

The role and character of a profession depend in large part upon the nature of the society
within which it operates. Contemporary society is changing rapidly, with the twenty-first …

The historical evolution of landscape stewardship is traced through four phases: immediate,
transitional, separate, and external, with each phase having progressively less direct contact …

The landscape firm begun by Frederick Law Olmsted, the patriarch of American landscape
architecture, and carried on by his personal and professional heirs, John Charles and …

The all-inclusive reference to starting and operating a landscape architecture firm The
Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture, Second Edition is completely revised to …

In the 1890s when a young New Yorker named Beatrix Jones chose to pursue a career in
“landscape gardening” as landscape architecture was then called, she had to piece together …

Landscape architect Warren H. Manning (1860-1938) created an important practice that
bridged the period between the popularity of ornamental horticulture and the rise of …

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is
a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the …