Amidon, Jane. 2005. Moving horizons: the landscape architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners. Basel: Birkhauser.
Atelier Dreiseitl proposal for Canal Park Design competition. 2004. Anacostia Waterfront Corporation. (unpublished)
Dreiseitl, Herbert (Ed.). 2001. Waterscapes: Planning, Buiding and Designing with Water. Basel: Birkhauser.
Dunne, Thomas and Luna B. Leopold. 1978. Water in Environmental Planning. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
Freeman, Allen. November 2004. "Fair Game on Lake Michigan." Landscape Architecture magazine.
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol proposal for Canal Park Design competition. 2004. Anacostia Waterfront Corporation. (unpublished)
Hall, Sir Peter. 1998. Cities in Civilization. New York: Pantheon Books.
Halprin, Lawrence. 1989. "Design as a Value System." Places 6:60-67.
Hazelrigg, George. June 2005. "A Canal Ran Through It." Pp. 106-115 in Landscape Architecture magazine.
Hough, Michael. 2004. Cities & Natural Process: A Basis for Sustainability. New York: Routledge.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C., www.loc.gov.
Moore, Charles W. 1994. Water and Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated.
Mumford, Lewis. 1961. The City in History. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
World Health Organization and UN-Water. 2005. "Celebrating Water for Life Advocacy Guide."
Ruggles, D. Fairchild. 2000. Gardens, landscape, and vision in the palaces of Islamic Spain. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. 1984. The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design. New York: Basic Books.
--. 1988. "The Poetics of City and Nature: Toward a New Aesthetic for Urban Design." Landscape Journal 7:108-126.
--. 1998. The Language of Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.