A down-to-earth handbook about the design and detail of the space between buildings, this book deals with all the 'bits' that go in between the different parts of the urban landscape, for example, paths, walls, fences, gates, steps, etc. Beazley's Design and Detail of the Space Between Buildings explores the reasons behind much of the best design in landscape architecture, both traditional and contemporary. Regarded by many as a classic of landscape architecture, this new edition, with completely updated text and illustrations, includes the use of new materials and methods of construction, and the change from imperial to metric measurement. Particularly useful in schools of landscape design, and architecture, but also for practising architects, designers and planners, it is a handbook which does not set out to tell people what to do but, rather, how to do it.