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Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design by Simonds and Starke (5th edition)
John Ormsbee Simonds and Barry Starke
The foundational text in landscape architecture — integrating the built environment with natural systems. Essential for understanding how the public realm merges with building design.
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