Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
This series introduces innovative work in landscape architecture and serves as a venue for important critical, practical, theoretical, and historical works to make their appearance in print. The full scope of concerns in the field—from gardens to regional planning, from private to public, present to future, from design to garden history—is embraced by Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Books in the series are intended for practitioners, academics, and general readers. Recipient of the Award of Honor in Comunications from the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006.
Series Editor:
John Dixon Hunt
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief
wbiggins@upenn.edu
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The Fountain of Latona
Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253757
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and parched on the coast of Asia Minor. Kneeling to sip from a pond,...
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225143
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and...
Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225150
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Moss, stone, trees, and sand arranged in striking or natural-looking compositions: the tradition of establishing and refining the landscape has been the work of Japanese gardeners and designers for...
The Marvels of the World
An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812224733
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight...
The Language of Fruit
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812250831
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant...
The Invention of Rivers
Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812249996
Pub Date: November 2018
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Dilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted a special role in defining human...
Spaces in Translation
Japanese Gardens and the West
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812246742
Pub Date: September 2017
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
One may visit famous gardens in Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka—or one may visit Japanese-styled gardens in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Paris, São Paulo, or Singapore. We often...
Of Gardens
Selected Essays
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9780812223545
Pub Date: March 2016
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her writings allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive...
Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812223507
Pub Date: November 2015
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are...
Site, Sight, Insight
Essays on Landscape Architecture
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812248005
Pub Date: May 2016
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see...

The Fountain of Latona
Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253757
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225143
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225150
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
The Marvels of the World
An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812224733
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
The Language of Fruit
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812250831
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
The Invention of Rivers
Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812249996
Pub Date: November 2018
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Spaces in Translation
Japanese Gardens and the West
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812246742
Pub Date: September 2017
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Of Gardens
Selected Essays
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9780812223545
Pub Date: March 2016
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812223507
Pub Date: November 2015
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Site, Sight, Insight
Essays on Landscape Architecture
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812248005
Pub Date: May 2016
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages