Landscape Architecture in Canada provides a detailed panorama of the man-made landscapes that vary as widely as the country’s geography. The book pro-files the projects and people that defined landscape architecture, illuminating the motivations and aspirations that drove landscape architects and explaining the intellectual climate in which they worked. Williams casts a wide net and examines the varied traditions and impacts of Canada’s first peoples, its early colonists, later immigrant communities, the remarkable landscape innovations of nineteenth-century industrial cities as well as agricultural landscapes and the protected natural environments of national parks. He also shows how stimulat-ing new ideas from recent decades have expanded landscape architecture and opened the door to projects that embody a distinctive Canadian approach, reflecting the social and natural diversity of contemporary society and its responses to rapid change.

Thoroughly researched, practically oriented, and grounded in the country’s many regions, Landscape Architecture in Canada is a richly illustrated and af-fecting narrative of the ways in which we have shaped our environment and an inimitable lens through which to view the story of Canada.

Ron Williams, C.M., a longtime professor and former director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the Université de Montréal, is a practising architect and landscape architect.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN CANADABy Ron Williams

May 2014 • 672pp • 8¼x10 • 354 images, full colour throughout • ISBN 9780773541894 • cloth

McGi l l -Queen’s Univers i ty Press

Winner ‒ Canadian Society of Landscape Architects 2015 Award of ExcellenceWinner ‒ Foundation for Landscape Studies 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize

Finalist ‒ 2015 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences

“Beautifully written and organized ... A first of its kind, this book is a must for all Canadian landscape architects and their students.” ‒Susan Herrington, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia

“An interdisciplinary masterpiece ... [This] book treats readers to insights into this complicated palimpsest ... expands the boundaries of landscape architecture, and provides this already complex discipline with new depth. Highly recommended.” ‒Choice

“A major accomplishment, Williams has successfully achieved a regional balance in bringing forth thematic and elemental examples, proof that ‘going to the ground’ remains all-important for researchers and students of Canadian landscape architecture.” ‒BC Studies

“The author takes us on an amazing journey from pre-colonial times to the present, through Canada’s rural and urban landscapes from coast to coast to coast… this well-written and abundantly illustrated publication … at times reads almost like a novel.”

‒Canadian Architect

“To read Ron Williams’s new book is a delight. [H]is narrative [provides] a strong spine for multiple stories of making, changing, imag-ining, and reading landscapes over the course of 150 plus years. Williams’s approach should serve as a model for future textbooks.”

‒Journal of Landscape Architecture

“... an essential volume for those with even a modest interest in Canada’s collective and varied landscape history. [Williams] has painstak-ingly ‒ and lovingly ‒ produced a well-researched, comprehensive history of landscape architecture in Canada.” ‒Landscape Journal

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