The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education

In this handbook, sixty authors, senior and junior educators and researchers from six continents, provide an overview of two hundred years of landscape architectural education. They tell the stories of schools and people, of visions, and of experiments that constitute landscape architecture education heritage.

Diedrich Bruns is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research expertise is in planning history, landscape planning, and communication methods. His academic appointments include universities in Toronto, Canada; Stuttgart, Germany; and California and Minnesota, USA. Dr Bruns has published several peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters, and books. He is founder of the consulting firm Landscape Ecology & Planning, and a past president of ECLAS.

Stefanie Hennecke is Professor for Open Space Planning at the University of Kassel, Germany. She has a doctoral degree from the University of the Arts, Berlin. Until 2013 she was junior professor of history and theory of landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich. Her research topics are the history of urban green spaces in the 19th and 20th centuries and the development of adaptable urban green spaces for people and wildlife. In 2021, she edited a book on the impact of Covid-19 on public open spaces.