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Guardians of Water: Designing Landscapes of Flow - A Global Perpective
Paperback
Environmental StudiesLandscape ArchitectureWater Gardens
Publisher Price: $38.99
ISBN13: 9783035631326
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Nov 25 2026
Pages: 208
Language: English
This anthology approaches water not as a resource to be managed but as a vital condition shaping territories and cultures. Emerging from the paradox of water's disappearance from everyday awareness even as floods and droughts intensify, the book repositions water as a spatial agent.
Rather than advancing technical fixes, it asks a fundamental question: What does it mean for designers to become Guardians of Water? Landscape architecture is reframed as an ethical and political practice grounded in reciprocity and long-term stewardship.
Structured in three chapters, Fluid Soils, Cloud Forests, and Rituals of Care, the book presents landscapes as active hydrological and social systems. It challenges extractive logics and technocratic paradigms, demonstrating how landscape architecture can foster regeneration and collective engagement.
- Forewords by Tim Waterman (Bartlett, UCL) and Devayani Deshmukh Upasani (Indian Society of Landscape Architects)
- A decolonial approach to landscape design, addressing fragile landscapes
- 26 tales ranging across Europe, Africa and Asia
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