"New Landscape Design" is a worldwide survey of developments in landscape architecture at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe foresaw landscape architecture as the "Mother of the Arts", and this overview reflects on five themes: the post-industrial, pattern-making, minimalism, allegory and meaning, and ecological diversity. These themes cover many other concerns - the image and function of urban spaces, ecological survival, sustainability, native peoples and their settlements, environmental education and the role and nature of human settlement - but it is the idea of landscape architecture as an art form that lies behind the selection of the projects. Schemes range from a disused gasworks in Germany to an indigenous people"s settlement in Australia, and take the shape of urban parks, botanic gardens, government buildings and ecological projects. The book features work from designers around the world, including Christophe Girot,...