MLA READING LIST
All students should read at least some of the following publications, or ones like them, before entering Georgia’s MLA program. They are preliminary to landscape architecture: they deal more with values and perceptions than with techniques. Some of them may be out of print and available only in libraries, not bookstores; that does not reduce their value as background to landscape architecture.
Books
- American Landscape Architecture, edited by William Tishler
- Architecture: Form, Space & Order, Francis D.K. Ching
- Bounded People, Boundless Lands, Eric Frey Fogle
- Celebrating Third Place, edited by Ray Oldenburg
- Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
- Design with Nature, Ian L. McHarg
- Earth in Mind, David Orr
- Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
- Experience of Place, Tony Hiss
- Genus Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Christian Norberg-Schultz
- The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
- God, Dr. Buzzard and the Bolito Man, Cornelia Walker Bailey
- Great Streets, Allan B. Jacobs
- The Granite Garden, Urban Nature, and Human Design, Ann Whiston Spirn
- The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch
- Keeping Time, William Murtaugh
- Landscape Architecture: An Illustrated History, William Mann
- Landscape Journal: Eco-Revelatory Design, Special Issue 1998
- Landscape Planning – Environmental Applications, William Marsh
- Placing Nature, Culture, and Landscape Ecology, edited by Joan Nassaver
- The Meaning of Gardens, edited by Mark Francis and Randolph T. Hester
- A Moment on the Earth, Gregg Easterbrook
- A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
- A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
- The Necessity for Ruins, John Brinckerhoff Jackson
- Reading the Landscape of America, May Theilgaard Watts
- Rural by Design, Randall Arendt
- A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
- Second Nature, Michael Pollan
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. Whyte
- Trees in Urban Design, Henry F. Arnold
- Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, edited by William Cronon
Journals
- American Forests
- Architectural Record
- Environment and Behavior
- Historic Preservation
- Landscape Architecture
- Landscape Journal
- Places
- Restoration and Management Notes
- Urban Land