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Tom Turner
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November 2013
John Claudius Loudon Biography
Loudon biographical material from Gardenvisit.com
John Claudius Loudon’s life, and that of his wife Jane Webb Loudon are covered in:
An extensive set of Loudon biographical pages on the Gardenvisit.com website The Claudians , a historical fictionalised biography by Tom Turner Landscape Dreams , a short and highly illustrated biography in graphic novel format.Read more of this blog post »
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Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD
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2004
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Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design
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2010
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City as Landscape
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1995
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9 editions
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European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
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2011
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British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
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2013
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Landscape design history & theory: landscape architecture and garden design origins
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2014
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Landscape architecture design theory and methods: Modern, Postmodern & Post-postmodern, including Landscape Ecological Urbanism & Geodesign
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2014
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Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design (Natural and Built Environment Series)
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1987
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London Gardens Walk
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2012
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English Garden Design, History and Style Since 1650
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1986
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Essential reading for Tilman admirers but if you are not, yet, a member of this group it would be best to read one of Tilman's own books first.
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“The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
“In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.”
― Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design
― Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design
“Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an environmental impact as possible. This is the objective of environmental impact design.”
― Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design
― Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design
“The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.”
― City as Landscape
― City as Landscape
“Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.”
― European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
― European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design
“Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.”
― Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD
― Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD
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