LibGuides: Landscape Architecture Research Guide: Finding Books

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Useful Reference Books

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture by James Stevens Curl
ISBN: 9780198606789
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Containing over 5,000 entries from Aalto to ziggurat, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of architecture available.
Illustrated History of Landscape Design by Elizabeth Boults; Chip Sullivan
ISBN: 9780470640074
Publication Date: 2010-02-12
Organized by century and geographic region, this highly visual reference uses hundreds of masterful pen-and-ink drawings to show how historical context and cultural connections can illuminate today's design possibilities.
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture by Nicholas T. Dines; Charles W. Harris
ISBN: 0070170274
Publication Date: 1997-11-22
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture, Second Edition, continues to be the most complete source of site design and construction standards and data. It is fully metric, to meet Federal and International requirements.
Guide for Plant Appraisal
Authored by the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers, this work is the professional plant appraiser’s how-to manual for determining size, species, condition, and location factors that influence the value of plants.
Plants for Michigan roadsides by Michigan Department of State Highways, Design Division - Roadside Development
Call Number: MSU Closed Reference - TE178 .M5
This is a marvelous and rare work of many species of trees and shroubs used for roadside plantings. very descriptive tables address charachteristics for each species. Book is oversized and in closed reference. Excellent for Landscape Architecture and land use planning and rehabilitation.
Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs by Michael A. Dirr (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0881924040
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
This bestselling encyclopedia, illustrated with brilliant photographs, describes the best woody plants adapted to cooler climates, showing both habit and details of more than 500 species, and including some 700 additional cultivars and varieties.
Site work & landscape cost data by RS Means
ISBN: 9781940238661