This compendium presents an international showcase of contemporarylandscape design between global trends, local traditions, climaticconditions, functional demands, new technologies, economiccircumstances, and individual styles: landscape architecture of todayheading for tomorrow.

A reference work and source of inspiration, this compendium provides an overview of the entire spectrum of this discipline based on projects around the world. Their common denominator is the design of ecologically and socially intact living space. Almost exactly ten years after the publishing of the Atlas of World Landscape Architecture, this new publication takes stock of the developments of the last decade.

Whether around, besides, on top of, or even in buildings, in populatedareas or in the countryside, landscape architecture develops and designsoutdoor spaces for humans as independent creations. It mediates betweennature and architecture and connects the grown and the planned habitat,balancing function and aesthetics. Against the backdrop of climatechange, the central task today is the conservation of natural resourcesand the creation of sustainable, high-quality green spaces.