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General

Alexander, C. et. al. 1977. A pattern language. New York:Oxford University Press.

McHarg, I. 1971. Design with Nature New York:Doubleday.

Mumford, L. 1938. The culture of cities. London:Secker and Warburg.

Mumford, L. 1961. The city in history. London:Secker and Warburg.

Sitte, C. (trans. Stewart, C.T.,) 1979 edn. The art of building cities. New York:Reinhold.

Whyte, W.H. 1970 edn. The last landscape New York:Doubleday Anchor.

Cycling & Green Transport

Buchanan, C.D., 1963 Traffic in towns London:HMSO.

Department of Transport. 1996 The National Cycling Strategy. London:Department of Transport.

Forester, J. 1994 2nd edn. Bicycle transportation. Harvard:MIT Press.

Forestry Act (1919)

Hass-Klau, C. 1990. The pedestrian and city traffic. London:Belhaven Press.

McClusky, J. 1979. Road form and townscape. London:Architectural Press.

Greenways

Ahern, J. & Fabos, J.Gy. Greenways: the begining of an international movement Amsterdam:Elsevier.

Ahern, J. 1995. Greenways as a planning strategy. Landscape and urban planning Vol 33 Nos. 1-3 October 1995 pp131-155.

Fabos, J, Gy. 1995. Introduction and overview: the greenway movement, uses and potentials of greenways. Landscape and urban planning Vol 33 Nos. 1-3 October 1995 pp 1-13.

Fabos, J. Gy. & Ahern, J. 1995. Special Issue: Greenways. Landscape and urban planning Vol 33 Nos. 1-3 October 1995.

Fink, C.A. & Searns, R.M., 1993 Greenways: a guide to planning, design and development. Washington DC:Island Press, The Conservation Fund.

Little, C. 1990. Greenways for America. Baltimore:John Hopkins University Press.

Noss, R.F 1993. Wildlife corridors. In: D.S. Smith and P. Cawood Hellmund (ed) Ecology of greenways. Mineapolis:University of Minnesota Press pp43-68.

Agriculture

Neher, D. 1992. Ecological sustainability in agricultural systems: definition and measurement. In Olson R.K. (ed) Integrating sustainable agriculture, ecology and environmental policy. Binghampton, New York:The Haworth Press. pp51-61

Turner, T., Landscape planning and environmental impact design UCL 1998

 

Forestry

Countryside Commission, 1987. Forestry in the countryside.

Crowe, S. 1978. The landscape of forests and woods. [Forestry Commission Booklet No. 44]. London:HMSO.

Harrison, R.P. 1992. Forests, the shadow of civilization. Chicago:University of Chicago Press.

Helliwell, D.R. 1982. Options in forestry. Chichester:Packard Publishing.

Lucas, O. 1984. The Forestry Commission. Landscape Design No. 150 August 1984 p. 10.

Robinson, G. 1988. The forest and the trees. Washington DC:Island Press.

Turner, T., Landscape planning and environmental impact design UCL 1998

New Towns & Green Towns

Olson, D.J. 1986. City as a work of art Newhaven:Yale University Press.

Opher, P. & Bird, C. 1980. British new towns: Runcorn and Warrington. Oxford:Oxford Polytechnic.

Opher, P. & Bird, C. 1981. British new towns: Cumbernauld, Irvine, East Kilbride. Oxford:Oxford Polytechnic.

Opher, P., Bird, C. 1980. British new towns: Runcorn and Warrington. Oxford:Oxford Polytechnic.

Turner, T. 1982. Planning the landscape for a new town. Town and Country Planning. Vol. 51, No. 10, November 1982, pp.267-271.

Turner, T., Landscape planning Hutchinson Education 1986

 

Minerals

Down, C.G. & Stocks, J. 1977. Environmental Impact of Mining. London:Applied Science Publishers.

Haywood, S.H. 1974. Quarries and the landscape. London:British Quarrying and Slag Federation.

Jellicoe, G.A. 1979. Blue Circle Cement, Hope Works, Derbyshire. A progress report on a landscape plan 1943-93. London:Blue Circle Cement.

Turner, T., Landscape planning and environmental impact design UCL 1998

 

Parks and POS planning

Chadwick, G.F. 1966. The park and the town. London:Architectural Press.

Cranz, G. 1982. The politics of park design: a history of urban parks in America. Cambridge Mass:MIT Press.

Davies, H. 1983. A walk around London's parks. London:Hamilton.

Greater London Development Plan. London:Greater London Council. Section 9.

Ramsey, A. 1990. Planning urban networks for walking. In Tolley, R., ed. The greening of urban transport: planning for walking and cycling in western cities. London:Belhaven Press.

Simo, M. 1981. John Claudius Loudon: on planning and design for the garden metropolis. Garden History. pp. 184-201.

Turner, T. 1992. Open space planning in London from standards per 1000 to green strategy. Town Planning Review 63 (4), 365-386.

Reservoirs

Dangerfield, B.J. 1981. Recreation: water and land. London:Institution of Water Engineers and Scientists.

Turner, T., Landscape planning and environmental impact design UCL 1998

 

Rivers

Barton, N. 1962. The lost rivers of London. London:Pheonix House.

Dunne, T. & Leopold, L.B. 1978. Water in environmental planning. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman

Brookes, A. 1988. Channelized rivers: perspectives for environmental management. Chichester:John Wiley.

CIRIA 1992a. Report 124: Scope for control of urban runoff Volume 2: A review of present methods and practice. London:Construction Industry Research and Information Service.

CIRIA 1992b. Report 124: Scope for control of urban runoff Volume 3:Guidelines London:Construction Industry Research and Information Service.

Gardiner, J.L. 1994. Sustainable development for river catchments. Water and environmental management Vol 8 No 3.

Glitz, D. 1983. Artificial channels - the 'ox-bow' lakes of tomorrow. Garten & Landschaft. February pp 109-111.

Hall, M.J. 1984. Urban hydrology. Amsterdam Elsevier.

Nixon, M. 1966. Flood regulation and river training. In Thorn, R.B. River engineering and water conservation works. London:Butterworth.

Sustainability

Hough, M., City form and natural process Croom Helm London 1984

Porritt, J. 1984. Seeing green: the politics of ecology explained. Oxford: Blackwell.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 1994 New rivers and wildlife handbook Sandy:RSPB.

Spirn, A.W. 1984. The granite garden. New York:Basic Books.

Benson, J., Roe, M., Landscape and sustainability (Spons, 2000)

Turner, T., Ecocities City as landscape (Spons, 1996)

 

Urbanisation

Bacon, E.N. 1967. Design of cities. London:Thames and Hudson.

Ashihara, Y. 1983. The aesthetic townscape. Cambridge Mass:MIT Press.

Krier, R. 1979. Urban space. London:Academy Editions.

Lynch, K.1960. The image of the city. Cambridge, Mass:MIT Press.

Trancik, R. 1986 Finding lost space New York:Van Nostrand.

Whyte, W.H. 1980. The social life of small urban spaces. Washington:The Conservation Foundation, Washington.