Publications

Books
Chapters in Books
Articles
Monographs
Digital Publications
Interviews
Selected Reviews of Works

 
Books The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design. New York: Basic Books, 1984 (published in Japanese, 1996). O Jardim de Granito: A Natureza no Desenho da Cidade. Sao Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1995.

 

 

The Language of Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)

 

One with Nature, artist's book, limited edition, 2001.

 

C.Th. Sørensen:Landscape Modernist, by Sven-Ingvar Andersson and Steen Høyer. Copenhagen: Arkitektens Forlag, 2001. Translator.

 

Chapters in Books

 

“Better Air Quality at Street Level: Strategies for Urban Design.” Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design, edited by Donald Watson, Alan Plattus, and Robert Shibley. McGraw-Hill, 2003.

 

 

“Urban Ecosystems and Urban Planning.” Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education, edited by Alan Berkowitz. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002.

 

 

“One with Nature: On Landscape, Language, Empathy, and Imagination,” International Cosmos Prize 2001 (Osaka, Japan: Expo 90 Foundation, 2002). In English and Japanese.

 

 

"The Authority of Nature: Conflict, Confusion, and Renewal in Landscape Architecture and Ecology.” Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning, edited by Kristina Hill and Bart Johnson. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001.

 

 

"Ian McHarg, Landscape Architecture, and Environmentalism: Ideas and Methods in Context.” Environmentalism and Landscape Architecture, edited by Michel Conan. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000.

 

“Rebuilding Urban Communities and Restoring Natural Environments.” Planning for the New Century, edited by Jonathon Barnett. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001.

 

“Reclaiming Common Ground: Water, Neighborhoods, and Public Spaces.” The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy, edited by Robert Fishman. Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: Woodrow Wilson Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

 

 

“Carl Theodore Sorensen.” Scandinavia: Luoghi, figure, gesti di una civiltà del paesaggio, edited by Domenico Luciani and Luigi Latini. Treviso: Edizioni Fondazioni Benetton Studi Recherche,1998. In Italian.

 

 

“The Authority of Nature: Conflict and Confusion in Landscape Architecture." Nature and Ideology, edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1997.

 

“Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of Landscape.” Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932, edited by David De Long. New York: Abrams, 1996. Awarded the International Architecture Book Award by the American Institute of Architects.

 

“Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted.” In Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, edited by William Cronon. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.

 

 

"Urban Nature and Human Design: Renewing the Great Tradition.” Classic Readings in Urban Planning, edited by Jay M. Stein. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

 

 

"Economic, Social, and Environmental Problems of Cities: The Impact and Next Steps.” Cities for the 21st Century. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1994.

 

 

"Texts, Landscapes, and Life.” Sven-Ingvar Andersson, edited by Steen Høyer. Copenhagen: Arkitektens Forlag, 1994.

 

 

“Introduction.” C.Th. Sørensen: Havekunstner, by Sven-Ingvar Andersson and Steen Høyer. Copenhagen: Arkitektens Forlag, 1993.

 

 

"Deep Structure: On Process, Form, and Design in the Urban Landscape.” City and Nature. Odense, DK: Odense University Press, 1993.

 

 

"Better Air Quality at Street Level: Strategies for Urban Design.” Public Streets for Public Use. Edited by Anne Vernez Moudon. Revised edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

 

 

“Urban Parks.” American Landscape Architecture: Designers and Places, edited by William H. Tishler. Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, 1988.

 

 

“Anne Whiston Spirn.” The Harvard Guide to Influential Books: Eminent Harvard Professors Discuss the Books That Have Shaped Their Thinking, edited by C. Maury Devine, et al. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

 

 

Articles

"Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice, and City
Planning and Design," Landscape Research 30:3 (July 2005).

 

"The City as a Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design,” Illume (Summer 2002). In Japanese.

 

"Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of Landscape, Part I,” Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly 11:3 (Summer 2000), 3-25 (entire issue).

 

"Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of Landscape Part II,” Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly 11:3 (Fall 2000), 4-25 (entire issue).

 

"Te taal van het landschap,” Blauwe Kamer (June 1998), 28-40. Prologue and Chapter One from The Language of Landscape. In Dutch.

 

"Deep Structure: Über Entwicklung, Form und Gestaltung in der Stadtlandschaft," Praxis Geschichte 11:4 (July 1997): 52-55.

 

"Reclaiming Territory: Four Books on Landscape." Progressive Architecture (February 1993).

 

"Designing with the Land." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 27:1 (January-February 1992):35-38.

 

"Seeing/Making the Landscape Whole." Progressive Architecture (August 1991).

 

"Architecture and Landscape: Toward a Unified Vision." Landscape Architecture (August 1990).

 

"From Uluru to Cooper's Place: Patterns in the Cultural Landscape." Orion (Spring 1990).

 

 

"The Poetics of City and Nature." Places 6:1 (Fall 1989): 82-93.

 

 

"Prospect." Landscape Architecture (September 1989).

 

 

"The Poetics of City and Nature: Toward a New Aesthetic For Urban Design." Landscape Journal (Fall 1988).

 

 

"Landscape Planning and the City." Landscape and Urban Planning 13 (1986): 433 441.

 

 

"Urban Nature and Human Design: Renewing the Great Tradition." Journal of Planning Education and Research (Fall 1985).

 

 

"Designing for Pedestrian level Winds: The Integration of Wind Engineering Technology and Urban Design." CELA Proceedings. Guelph, Canada: University of Guelph, School of Landscape Architecture, 1984.

 

 

"Composition urbaine et forces naturelles." Metropolis 66 (1985): 56 60.

 

 

"Design for Survival." Arnoldia 44:4 (Fall 1984): 29-36.

 

 

"Using Vegetation to Cool Small Structures." Proceedings of the 1981 Annual Meeting, American Section of the International Solar Energy Society: 906 910.

 

 

"The Role of Natural Processes in the Design of Cities." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 451 (September 1980): 98 105.

 

 

Monographs

 

The West Philadelphia Digital Database: An Atlas and Guide. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, l996, with Robert Cheetham.

 

The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework for Action. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, l991.

 

Models of Success: Landscape Improvement and Community Development. A Publication of the West Philadelphia Landscape Plan. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, l991, with Daniel Marcucci.

 

Shaping the Block. A Publication of the West Philadelphia Landscape Plan. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, l991, with Mark Campbell and Michele Pollio.

 

 

Vacant Land: A Resource for Reshaping Urban Neighborhoods. A Publication of the West Philadelphia Landscape Plan. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, l991, with Michele Pollio.

 

 

"This Garden is a Town". A Publication of the West Philadelphia Landscape Plan. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, l990, with Michele Pollio.

 

Nature, Form, and Meaning: Special Issue of Landscape Journal. Editor, 1988. Awarded the Ozzie Award for Excellence in Design.

 

 

Managing Lasting Improvements to Public Open Space, co author with Arnold Howitt and Elisabeth Lardner. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Center for State and Local Government, Harvard University, 1987.

 

 

Air Quality at Street Level: Strategies for Urban Design. Prepared for Boston Redevelopment Authority. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1986.

 

 

Plants for Passive Cooling, co-author with Adele Naude Santos. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1981.

 

 

Environmental Resources of the Toronto Central Waterfront, co-author with Narendra Juneja. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd, 1976.

 

 

Pardisan: An Environmental Park, co-author with Ian McHarg, Narendra Juneja, and W. Robinson Fisher. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd, 1975.

 

 

Woodlands New Community: Guidelines for Site Planning. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wallace McHarg Roberts & Todd, 1973.

 

 

Digital Publications

 

“You Just Don't Leave Family,” digital story about the West Philadelphia Landscape Project, 2002.

 


Interviews

 

 

“Tensions of Change: A Conversation with Anne Whiston Spirn,” by Laura Muthler White. July 2003.
 

 

"Building the Urban Landscape: Anne Whiston Spirn Talks with Hubert Murray," Architecture Boston, Fall 2001, 43 47.

Michigan Public Radio, "The Language of Landscape and the West Philadelphia Landscape Project," Todd Mundt Show, July 2000.

Public Radio International, "The Language of Landscape," Dialogue, December 1999.

National Public Radio, "Buried Rivers," Radio Times," August 1999.

"Landscape Literacy and the Empowerment of Inner-City Youth: The West Philadelphia Landscape Project," Free Associations, June 1999 on WHPK (University of Chicago) and WZRD (Northeastern Illinois University).

Wisconsin Public Radio, "The West Philadelphia Landscape Project and the Language of Landscape," To the Best of Our Knowledge, January 1999.

Michigan Public Radio, "The West Philadelphia Landscape Project," March 1998.

Wisconsin Public Radio, "Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted," To the Best of Our Knowledge, May 1997.

Public Radio International, "The Granite Garden," Dialogue, January 16, 1995.

National Public Radio, "The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan," Living on Earth, 1993.


Selected Reviews of Works

Benjamin McCloskey, “Mill Creek: West Philadelphia Students Uncover the Life of Their Urban Watershed,” New Village: Building Sustainable Cultures 3 (2002): 24-25.

Osaka-Jin (February 2002): 66-67. In Japanese.

Paul Bennett, "Landscape Organism: The West Philadelphia Landscape Project," Landscape Architecture (March 2000): 66 71, 82.

Keiko Takayama, "The West Philadelphia Landscape Project," Bio-City 17 (November 1999): 57-67. In Japanese.

Paul Bennett, "The Language of Landscape," Landscape Architecture (May 1999).

Campbell, Glenn, "Learning Gets Real With Service." Philadelphia Daily News, May 7, 1998.

Knack, Ruth. "Dig These Gardens." Planning 60:7 (July 1994): 20-24.

Hine, Thomas. "Surroundings: A Long-Buried Creek in West Philadelphia." Philadelphia Sunday Inquirer. November 15, 1992.

Thompson, William. "A Natural Legacy: Ian McHarg and His Followers." Planning (Nov.1991).

Raver, Anne. "The New Crop." The New York Times Magazine: Home Design. Oct.13, 1991.

Curwood, Steve. "Profile: Shaping the City to Nature's Laws." Boston Globe, May 26, 1985.

Francis, Mark. "The Granite Garden." J. of Arch. and Planning Research (1985).

Rainey, Reuben. "The Granite Garden." Design Book Review 6 (Winter 1985).

Lang, Jon. "The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design." Journal of Planning Education and Research 5 (Autumn 1985).

Saunders, Ralph A. "The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75 (March 1985).

Odum, Eugene. "The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design." Landscape Journal 3 (Fall 1984).

ASLA Awards Panel. Landscape Architecture 74:5 (1984).

Powledge, Fred. "The Greening of American Cities." Washington Post Book World. April 1, 1984.

Kaplan, Sam Hall. "A Plan for Peaceful Urban Coexistence." Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 25, 1984.

Bender, Richard. "Making the Metropolis Green." New York Times Book Review, January 22, 1984.