Tom Turner
Encyclopedia
Tom Turner is an English
Landscape architect
, Garden design
er and Garden historian
teaching at the University of Greenwich
in London
. He is the author of books and articles on landscape and gardens and is the editor of the Garden History Reference Encyclopedia CD and the online Gardens Guide.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
Landscape architect
Landscape architect
A landscape architect is a person involved in the planning, design and sometimes direction of a landscape, garden, or distinct space. The professional practice is known as landscape architecture....
, Garden design
Garden design
Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Garden design may be done by the garden owner themselves, or by professionals of varying levels of experience and expertise...
er and Garden historian
History of gardening
The history of ornamental gardening may be considered as aesthetic expressions of beauty through art and nature, a display of taste or style in civilized life, an expression of an individual's or culture's philosophy, and sometimes as a display of private status or national pride—in private...
teaching at the University of Greenwich
University of Greenwich
The University of Greenwich is a British university located in the London Borough of Greenwich, London, England. The main campus is located on the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, a central location within the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site.-History:The history of the...
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. He is the author of books and articles on landscape and gardens and is the editor of the Garden History Reference Encyclopedia CD and the online Gardens Guide.
Published works
- ’’Suez Canal Regional Plan Volume 4 Environment (United Nations Development Programme, Cairo, 1977)
- ’’Landscape Design for the Middle East , Chapter on 'The design of open space' in book edited by Jane Brown and Timothy Cochrane (RIBA Publications, 1978)
- ’’Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, Preface to 1982 edition of Gertrude Jekyll's book (Antique Collectors Club, 1982)
- ’’Loudon's stylistic development Journal of Garden History 1982, Vol.2, No.2, pp 175 188.
- ’’Landscape planning: a linguistic and historical analysis of the term's use Landscape Planning 9, (1982/3) pp. 179 192.
- ’’London Landscape Guide (Landscape Institute, 1983) with Simon Rendel.
- ’’Landscape planning: the need to train specialists' Landscape Planning 11 (1984) pp. 33 36.
- ’’Comment on Philip Dearden "Factors influencing landscape preferences: an empirical investigation"' Landscape Planning 12, (1985) pp 93 4.
- ’’English Garden Design history and styles since 1650 (Antique Collectors Club, 1986). ISBN 0 907462 25 1
- ’’Landscape Planning (Hutchinson Education, 1987). ISBN 0-09-164710-X
- ’’Urban Parks The Landscape Institute, December 1992.
- ’’Open space planning in London: from standards per 1000 to green strategy' Town Planning Review October 64 (4) 1992 pp 365-386.
- ’’GIS and the "Future of Planning"' Planning Practice and Research Vol 9, No.4, pp 347–351 December 1994
- ’’Greenways, blueways, skyways and other ways to a better London Landscape and Urban Planning 33 (1995) 269-282
- ’’GIS and the rebirth of ‘planning’ Urban Studies Vol 1 No 1 Autumn 1995
- ’’River reclamation, with GIS Built Environment Vol 21 No 1, 1995
- ’’Western Europe, current city expansion and the use of GIS Robert Holden and Tom Turner, Landscape and Urban Planning 36 (1997) 315-326.
- ’’City as Landscape: a post-Postmodern view of design and planning (Spons, 1996) ISBN 0 419 204105
- ’’Public Open Space: planning and management with GIS (Greenwich University Press, 1998) ISBN 1 86166 100 2
- ’’Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design (UCL Press 1998) ISBN 1 85728 321 x HB
- ’’Garden History Reference Encyclopedia CD (2002) ISBN 0-9542306-0-4
- ’’Garden Design: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC-2000 AD Routledge (2005) ISBN 978-0415317498
- ’’Asian Gardens: history, belief and design (2010) ISBN 978-0415496872 Routledge
- ’’European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design (2011) ISBN 978-0415496841 Routledge