This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia, featuring visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience from award-winning landscape architects around the world.
This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia. The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience, developed by award-winning landscape architects and academics from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, Finland, South Africa, Singapore, and China. Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action illustrates the imaginative ways in which climate action and climate resilient concepts are visually presented, communicated, and perceived. The book will be especially valuable for students and practitioners in landscape architecture, urban planning, and related fields to understand how to visually capture climate change issues and design solutions, and to deliver this message to the public.
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Climate Change is an existential threat to our Planet and the survival of the Human Species. Although the topic is top of mind, visual expressions solidify the need for more action from a broad audience. It is wonderful to have a book that provides illustrations to convey many ways the discipline and profession of Landscape Architecture addresses nature based design solutions towards reversing the effects of climate change.
Kona Gray, FASLA, PLA, Principal of EDSA Inc, and 2025-26 President of ASLA
"Representation is an effective method for communicating complex issues, especially the profound challenge of Climate Change. Landscape architecture's role in visually conveying complicated concepts is pivotal for educating and creating action. It serves as a catalyst for the cultural shift required to address the global climate crisis facing everyone."
Damian Holmes, Founder and Editor of World Landscape Architecture
Notes on Contributors Foreword by Carl A. Smith Acknowledgements
1.
Introduction - Representing Climate Action: A Collection of Works
2.
Visualizing Climate Action: A Conversation with SCAPE Studio
3. Imaging
Change
4. Communicating Complexity through Simplicity
5. Climate Action: The
Works of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
6. Drawing Out Climate Action:
The Role of Graphic Representation in Climate-Centered Landscape
Architectural Practice
7. Communicating Landscapes of Complexity with Chunks
and Comics
8. Function, Process, Change: Designing Flood Infrastructure to
Protect Calgarys Vulnerable Communities
9. Landscape of Relations
10. Urban
Forests: Landscape Designs Tailored to Dense Cityscapes
11. Reinventing the
Coast through Design
12. Image, Narrative, Action
13. Realizing Happy
Environments: Felixx's Visual Narratives of Change
14. Climate-Adaptive and
Nature-Sensitive Approach for Livable Cities
15. Visualizing Climate Action
in Africa the Works of GREENinc
16. Climate Action through Landscape
Architecture: A South African Perspective
17. Modular Approach Creating
Low-Maintenance Sponge City: Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok, Thailand
18.
Landscape Frontiers: Designing within the New Geographies of the Climate
Crisis
19. Landscape from Atmosphere to Below: Representation and the Climate
Crisis
20. The Specters of a Changing Climate
21. A Self-Critique of
Landscape Architecture in Climate Communication
22. Surge Barrier Impact
Assessment using Digital Twin Performance Analytics in Galveston Island,
Texas
23. Restoring for Resilience through Natural Channel Design
24. Spatial
Imaginaries, and the Humanization of Green Recovery
25. Climate Stories: The
Ongoing and the Unfinished
26. Before the After: Representing Climate Actions
in the Age of AI
27. Climate Action in Isometrics, Transects, and Atmospheres
28. From Data Points to Dynamic Spatial Experience: Immersive Design
Speculations for the Rail Corridor in Singapore
29. Visualizing Climate
Action: Predictors of the Unpredictable
30. Afterword. Bibliography
Nadia Amoroso, PhD, OALA, CSLA, is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development. She holds a PhD from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, and degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Toronto. She specializes in visual communication in landscape architecture, digital design, data visualization, and creative mapping. She also runs an illustration studio, under her name, focusing on landscape architectural visual communication. She has published a number of articles and books on topics relating to creative mapping, visual representation, and digital design.
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