Landscape Architecture is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the advancement of research, theory, criticism, and applied knowledge in landscape architecture and its related disciplines. The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly work that examines the planning, design, conservation, management, and cultural interpretation of landscapes across natural, rural, urban, and regional contexts.
The journal aims to promote rigorous academic inquiry into the relationship between people, land, ecology, infrastructure, architecture, and the built environment. It encourages research that contributes to the theoretical development, methodological expansion, and practical application of landscape architecture as a discipline concerned with spatial quality, environmental responsibility, cultural meaning, and long-term landscape stewardship.
The scope of the journal covers research areas within Arts and Humanities, Architecture, Engineering, Environmental Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Contributions may address historical, cultural, ecological, technical, and design-based dimensions of landscapes, including both theoretical studies and applied investigations.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Landscape architecture theory, history, criticism, and research methods
- Architectural landscapes, urban design, and spatial planning
- Cultural landscapes, heritage landscapes, historical gardens, and landscape identity
- Parks, public spaces, waterfronts, streetscapes, campuses, and civic landscapes
- Landscape ecology, ecological restoration, and habitat-sensitive design
- Nature conservation, biodiversity protection, and protected landscape management
- Green infrastructure, blue-green networks, and climate-resilient landscape systems
- Sustainable site planning, environmental performance, and low-impact development
- Landscape engineering, construction technologies, materials, drainage, grading, and landform design
- Urban environmental quality, landscape perception, environmental aesthetics, and human well-being
- Rural landscapes, agricultural landscapes, regional planning, and land-use transformation
- Climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and resilient open-space systems
- Environmental humanities, place studies, landscape representation, and spatial culture
- Policy, governance, ethics, and management of natural and designed landscapes
The journal welcomes original research articles, review papers, book reviews, case studies, theoretical papers, methodological papers, design research, comparative studies, editorials, critical essays and letters. Submissions should make a clear scholarly contribution to landscape architecture or to one of its intersecting fields, supported by appropriate evidence, research methods, critical analysis, or theoretical argument.
By bringing together design, humanities, engineering, environmental science, and conservation perspectives, Landscape Architecture seeks to support high-quality academic research that deepens understanding of landscapes as ecological systems, cultural records, designed spaces, and essential components of sustainable human environments.