Rocket City: Envisioning a Future for the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL
The US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama is NASA’s official Visitor Information Center…
Faculty Publications
When Urbanization Comes to Ground
Authors: Carlos Arnaiz and Peter G. Rowe. ORO, 2019 This book is a loose…
Rīo Ciudad, Monterrey: Space Production, Ecology and Culture
Authors: Peter G. Rowe and Roberto Pasini It has often been said that we…
A City in Blue and Green: The Singapore Story
Authors: Peter G. Rowe and Limin Hee Springer Open, 2019. This book is about…
Beyond appearances: Community activism and New York City’s High Line
Journal of Landscape Architecture Volume 14, 2019 – Issue 3 Conventional…
Urban Blocks and Grids: History, Technical Features and Outcomes
Authors: Peter G. Rowe, Hanne J. van den Berg and Liang Wang. Scholars Press,…
Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects…
Towns, Ecology, and the Land
Towns and villages are sometimes viewed as minor, even quaint, spots, whereas this book boldly…
Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California
This book serves as a guide for local governments and private enterprises…
Resilient Imaginaries: Socio-Ecological Urban Design in Metro Manila, The Philippines
With the notable uptick of natural disasters impacting densely-populated areas, attention to the subject of…
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history…
Ephemeral Urbanism: Does Permanence Matter?
Ephemeral Urbanism invites us to ponder material impermanence. Is a recognition of the transitory nature…
Climate Change Adaptation in North America: Fostering Resilience and the Regional Capacity to Adapt
This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change…
Landscape Tunings: An Urban Park at the Danube
Landscape Tunings maintains that landscape is more than ecology and technical performance; it is also…
Blue Dunes: Climate Change by Design
Blue Dunes chronicles the design of artificial barrier islands developed to protect the Mid-Atlantic region…
Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State
This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives—aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political,…
China's Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts and Well-Being
Photograph of “China’s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts and Well-Being Authors: Peter G. Rowe; Ann Forsyth and…
Beyond the City
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for…
Urban Disaster Resilience: New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment
Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated…
The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India – Documenting the Exhibition and its Allied Events
The Urban Design Research Institute hosted the State of Architecture: Practice and Processes in India,…
Permutations of Descriptive Geometry
This book examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection.
Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core
Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate…
The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India
By 2050, India’s cities will be populated by 850 million people. Will India’s cities have…
Atmosphere Anatomies: On Design, Weather, and Sensation
Landscape Meteorology series, 2014. Courtesy OFICINAA/Silvia Benedito. Atmosphere Anatomies examines the relationships between landscape architecture,…
Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence
As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic…