A search for nearby nature and wildness After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, hold any surprises for the world traveller or satisfy his wanderlust? Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration? Discovering more about the natural world than in all his years in remote environments, he learns the value of truly getting to know his neighbourhood. An ode to slowing down, Local is a celebration of curiosity and time spent outdoors, as well as a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep. Eye Books, 2024. Paperback, 368pp., 8.25 x 5.5

Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency. In this book, landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up questions of what garden as a model could stand for. Birkhauser, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, 17 x 24 cm

Pages:232Language:English17 × 24 cm62 Illustrations159 Coloured Illustrations, Ron Henderson A cocktail event of the very best trees, served by the very best landscape designers, incl Laurie Olin and Shannon Nichol. Why they loved their tree, where it was best, its botanics, its nature, its myth.

292 pp, 200 color, full color cloth edition Design process, working methods, original sketches, gardens throughout his career, the largest collection of Oudolf drawings ever published

Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 360 pgs / 356 color / 48 bw. Intangible Heritage presents both Marx’s work and teachings, compiling nine of his most seminal lectures written between 1962 and 1983. Illustrated with images of his mosaics and detailed maps, the volume groups Marx’s lectures into three thematic sections: in the first, he explores how botanical expeditions, such as his trip to the Amazonas in 1983, informed his thinking about urban landscapes; in the second, Marx traces facets of landscape architecture to their ancestral origins and discusses the role of subjectivity in the profession; in the third, he delves into society's responsibility to protect the environment

Roddy Scheer, Timber Press, Portland, 368 pp., paper

London, Noel Kingsbury/Claire Takacs, 320 pp, cloth.

192 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, pb, German/English

Photography Yukio Futagawa, text Kengo Kuma, Tokyo, 280pp.,14” x 10”, 6 lbs, boxed.

Filbert Press, hardcover, 288pp.

Brain D. Coleman, photographs by William Wright. Foreword by Art Wolfe. 9 x 11", 256 pp. Pre-Order, available end of August, 2021.

Nola Anderson, photos by Clint Clemens. 232 pages. The history, restoration and renewal of The Chimneys. a great Olmsted seaside garden, purchased by Nola Anderson and her husband in 1991.

paperback 264pp, pub 1/5/2021, Lars Muller, Silvia Benedito The relation, in all its complexity of landscape and land and atmosphere, the nature of weather as factor and force. The finally inevitable, atmosphere in the full council of spheres. Includes the case studies of 18th century French garden design to contemporary work, including Chnadigarh. Atmosphere as threshold, atmosphere as program, atmosphere as situation, atmosphere as conrast.

Legendary and unsurpassed botanical masterwork, large-format, features more than 400 quill-pen illustrations of 211 tree species, drawn in 1:100 scale, with and w/o foliage, and with tables of seasons and projections of shadows. 424 pp. Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi.

Collection of a dozen lectures by Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994), whose work as a landscape architect, gardener, artist, and botanist brought radical change and a restructuring of thought and place. The volume also includes the first English translations of many of Burle Marx's lectures, as well as photos by Leonardo Finotti of Burle Marx's realized projects. Edited by Gareth Doherty. 288 pages.

Includes 5 recently opened projects, each with watercolor plan, materials and plant list, Grouped under Water, Plants, and Stone.