This list was compiled by the LAEP Faculty as a means to guide prospective students in the month
preceding enrollment in the department. While preparatory reading is critical, students are encouraged
to continue reading from these seminal works during and after their studies at USU. Download PDF Version
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A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
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J. B. Jackson
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Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
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Francis Ching
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Becoming a Landscape Architect
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Kelleann Foster
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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Wallace Stegner
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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Marc Reisner
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Community Design Primer
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Randolph T. Hester
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Cradle to Cradle
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William McDonough
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Design with Nature
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Ian McHarg
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Good City Form
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Kevin Lynch
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Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
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Anne Whiston Spirn
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Great Streets
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Allan Jacobs
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Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land Use Planning
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Wenche Dramstad, et al.
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Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications (4th edition)
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William Marsh
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Landscaping on the New Frontier
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Meyer, Kjelgren, Morrison, Varga
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Learning from Las Vegas (Revised Edition)
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Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour
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Pattern Language
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Christopher Alexander
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People Places
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Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis
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Regenerative Design-Sustainable Development
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John Lyle
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Sand County Almanac
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Aldo Leopold
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The Biophilia Hypothesis
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Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson
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The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
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Adam Rome
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Jane Jacobs
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The Experience of Landscape
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Jay Appleton
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The New Urbanism
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Peter Katz
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The Next American Metropolis
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Peter Calthorpe
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The Planting Design Handbook
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Nick Robinson
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The Universal Traveler: A Soft Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem Solving and the Process of Reaching Goals
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Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall
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Water in Environmental Planning
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Thomas Dunne and Luna Leopold
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Wilderness and the American Mind
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Roderick Nash
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With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature
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R. Kaplan, S. Kaplan and R. Ryan
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