Architecture and Urban Planning Library

Finding Local Information

Local Statistics

• King County Sources of Economic and Demographic Information
• Demographic Statistics by County
• Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington Planning and Community Development Links
• Pacific Northwest State and Local Resources
• State of Washington City and County Information
• Statistical Resources for Washington Local Governments
• United States Census Bureau State and County Quick Facts
• University of Washington Fact Book
• University of Washington Libraries Government Publications

 

Landscape Architecture Portals

Academic

 

 

• University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Architecture and Planning Library Site
• Landscape Architecture Online (University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design)

Commercial

• LandscapeOnline.com

Local Environmental Resources

• Salmon Info (Puget Sound)
  

Professional Sources for Landscape Architects

Book Stores

• Peter Miller Architectural Bookstore

City of Seattle

• Seattle Department of Planning and Development

  DPD Code Compliance

  DPD Design Coordination

  DPD Sustainable Building Program

  Seattle Comprehensive Plan

Competitions

• Death by Architecture (U.S.)

Dictionaries

• ASLA Glossary of Landscape Architecture Terms (ASLA)
• Glossary of Terms Landscape Gardening and Architecture, (John Tattern Professor of English, Birmingham-Southern College)
  

Licensing

• State of Washington, Department of Licensing

Maps

• City of Seattle Guide to Maps
• City of Seattle Base and Planning Maps
• GoogleMaps
• Seattle Public School Maps
• Washington Geo-Spatial Data WAGDA
• University of Washington Map Collection and Cartographic Information Services Unit

 

Professional Organizations

Landscape Architecture Professional Organizations (North America)

• American Society of Landscape Architects
  • ASLA Washington Chapter
    • ASLA Washington Related Organizations Links
  • ASLA Oregon
  • ASLA NorCal
  • ASLA SoCal
• Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
• Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
• Cultural Landscape Foundation
• Landscape Architecture Foundation

Landscape Architecture Professional Organizations (Africa)

• Institute of Landscape Architects of South Africa (ILASA)

Selected Seattle / Northwest Firms

• ASLA Firm Finder
• Directory of Landscape Architects (Commercial site)
• Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. (Seattle, WA, and London, UK)
  • "Shaping Great Scapes" (Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine article on Kathryn Gustafson)
• Jones and Jones (Seattle)
• Murase Associates (Seattle and Portland, OR)
• Nakano Associates (Seattle)
• Portico Group (Seattle)

Job Hunting

• UC Berkeley, Environmental Design Library Job Hunting in Planning, Architecture, & Landscape Architecture
• ASLA Joblink

 

Landscape Architecture History

Architecture Archive Collections

• UW Libraries Special Collections
• Architectural Drawings Database
• B. Dudley Stuart Architectural Photograph Collection Guide ca. 1920s-1940s
• Dearborn-Massar Collection
 

Bibliographies

• Robertson, Prof. Iain, Curriculum Vita Bibliography
• Streatfield, Prof. David, Curriculum Vita Bibliography

Image Databases

• Archnet Image Databases
• Cities and Buildings Database, University of Washington
• Digital Imaging Project, Bluffton College
  Note: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from Classical Greece to Post-Modern
• Exploring Image Collections on the Internet: Resources at MIT and Beyond , MIT Rotch Visual Collections
• Image Project,San Jose State University
• http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/index.html
• Maecenas, University of Buffalo
  Note: Images of the Classical World
• Periferia Architecture and Urban Design in the Caribbean
• University of Delaware Library Links to Digital Image Collections

Studio Assignments

Environmental Research Topics

Building Materials Life Cycle Analysis | Cultural Landscape Preservation | Ecological Literacy | Therapeutic Gardens | Urban Heat Island (ULI) Effect

Building Materials Life Cycle Analysis

• ASTM E1991-05 Standard Guide for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Building Materials/Products (ASTM)
• Building Materials: What Makes a Product Green? (Building Green.com)
• CORRIM: Life Cycle Performance of Renewable Building Materials (Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials, University of Washington)
  • Life Cycle Environmental Performance of Renewable Building Materials in the Context of Residential Construction (CORRIM)
• Greening the Building Life Cycle (RMIT University and Environment Australia)
  • Building Environmental Improvement Links
• IKP Department of Life Cycle Engineering (University of Stuttgart)
• Life Cycle Analysis of a Residential Home in Michigan (University of Michigan)
• Life Cycle Assessment Tools to Measure Environmental Impacts (HUD User, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
  • Life Cycle Assessment Tools to Measure Environmental Impacts Final Report
• Life Cycle Assessment: A Case Study of a Dwelling Home in Scotland (Elsevier Science Direct)
• Life Cycle Assessment Tools (Architecture Week.com)
• Life Cycle Assessment Tools (University of Minnesota)
• Life Cycle Analysis: Overview (Healthy Building Network)

Cultural Landscape Preservation

• Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
• Cultural Landscape Foundation (CLF)
  • Book Review: Design with Culture (CLF)
• Historic Landscape Preservation Intiative (State of Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation)
• Landscape Preservation (Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation)
• Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America, Arnold Alanen and Robert Z. Melznick, eds., (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 Suzzallo E159 .P746 2000)
  • UW Madison Department of Landscape Architecture (Bibliography of Alanen's publications)
• Protecting Cultural Landscapes (Charles A. Birnbaum, National Park Service [NPS] Preservation Briefs)
  • Cultural Landscapes Program (NPS)
  • Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (NPS)

Ecological Literacy (See also Environmental Literacy)

• "Basic Ecological Literacy" (Kenneth M. Klemow, Wilkes University)
• Center for Ecoliteracy (Berkeley, CA)
• Eco-Literacy (Berkeley, CA)
• Ecological Literacy (Holistic Education Network of Tasmania, Australia; many useful links)
• Living on Earth Ecological Literacy Project (Public Broadcasting Company)
• "Towards a Definition of Ecological Literacy" ( Alan R. Berkowitz, Institute for Ecological Studies)
• What is Ecological Literacy? (Toronto Outdoor Education Schools)

Therapeutic Gardens

• "A Refuge on the Roof" (Galen Motin Goff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA)
• Alzheimer's Therapeutic Activities: What Are Therapeutic Gardens? (Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation)
• American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA)
  • Gardens in Healthcare Restoring Health and Wellness (AHTA Conference, Portland, OR, 6/14-16/2006)
• Anderton Thearpeutic Gardens Society
• "Casitas, Healing the Wounds of Displacement" (Prof. Daniel Winterbottom, Journal of Mediterranean Ecology, 8, 2007, 77-86; whole issue on therapeutic gardens)
• "Evaluating the Effect of Therapeutic Gardens" (Yuko Heath, American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias 19:4, 2004, 239-242 )
• "Havens of Healing" (Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine profile of Prof. Daniel Winterbottom)
  • Prof. Daniel Winterbottom, Curriculum Vita Bibliography
• Healing Gardens (Therapeutic Landscapes Database)
• Healthcare and Therapeutic Design (ASLA)
  • 2007 ASLA Student Awards
  • PI Group Interview: Therapeutic Garden Design Professional Interest Group
  • Therapeutic Garden Design
• "Nearby Nature and Long-Term Care Facility Residents: Benefits and Design Recommendations" (Anne Kearney, Daniel Winterbottom, Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 19:3-4, 2005, 7-28)
• Profile of a Therapeutic Garden (American Cancer Society)
• The Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging, Susan D. Rodiek, ed., [Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006)
• "Therapeutic Gardens--Horticulture and Healing" (Tracy Greene Mintz, Socialwork Today)
• "Vision of a playgarden for disabled children is beginning to sprout," (Marty Wingate, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11/13/2003)

Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect

• Beating the Heat (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Heat Island Effect (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
• Heat Island Group (Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, University of California, U.S. Department of Energy)
  • Learning about Urban Heat Islands
• How Much is the World Warming? (UNited Nations Environmental Programme)
• "Role of Canopy Composition and Structure in Determining Heat Islands" (Qiahao Weng, Indiana State University)
• Urban Heat Island Effect (RealClimate.org)
  • The Surface Temperature Record and the Urban Heat Island
• Urban Climate: Climate Study and UHI (Arizona State University)
• Urban Heat Island (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Urban Heat Islands and Climate Change: Melbourne, Australia (University of Melbourne)