Landscapes of Change: Innovative Designs for Reinvented Sites

Climate change, natural resource use, population shifts, and many other factors have all changed the demands we place on landscape designs. Projects now have to help connect neighborhoods, absorb stormwater, cool urban centers, and provide wildlife habitats. Landscapes of Change examines how these challenges drive the design process, inspire new design strategies, and result in innovative works that are redefining the field of landscape architecture. 

In 25 case studies from around the world, Roxi Thoren explores how the site can serve as the design generator, describing each project through the physical, material, ecological, and cultural processes that have shaped the site historically and continue to shape these ground-breaking projects. 

Roxi Thoren is an associate professor of architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Oregon and director of the Fuller Center for Productive Landscapes. She holds master’s degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from the University of Virginia. She is a Fulbright fellow (Iceland), a Landscape Architecture Foundation research fellow, and a recipient of multiple awards including research and design awards from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards.