271 PAGES OF LANDSCAPE • NATURE • BIODIVERSITY • DESIGN • CITIES • WELLBEING - Exploring how landscape can become living infrastructure for healthier people and a healthier planet.

Designing with nature, from the ground up.

Landscape is not simply what happens around a building.

It shapes how we move through cities, how we experience public spaces, how biodiversity survives, how water moves through our environments, how we encounter sound and seasonal change — and how connected we feel to the living world.

The Landscape Edition of the Journal of Biophilic Design explores the growing role of landscape architecture and landscape design in creating healthier, more biodiverse and more resilient places for people and planet.

Across 271 pages, this issue brings together landscape architects, designers, ecologists, researchers and practitioners exploring the relationship between nature, people and place.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Exploring how landscape can become an active part of architectural thinking — connecting buildings with sky, horizon, land, water and the wider landscape. The issue considers how buildings meet the ground, how inside and outside connect, and how landscape can shape our experience of place.

DESIGNING FOR BIODIVERSITY
How planting, habitat corridors, water, trees and ecological systems can become integral to the design of our environments.

THE NATIVE VS. NON-NATIVE DEBATE
A fascinating exploration of planting choices, biodiversity and the challenge of creating climate-resilient landscapes as growing conditions change.

REPAIR, RENEWAL & REGENERATION
What happens when we stop asking what we can impose on a landscape and instead ask: “What does the landscape want to be?”

LANDSCAPE & COMMUNITY
How thoughtful landscape design can strengthen local identity, create shared places and reconnect communities with the landscapes around them.

LANDSCAPE & THE WORKPLACE
Why outdoor spaces should be treated as valuable extensions of the workplace rather than simply transitional areas — supporting wellbeing, connection, collaboration and biodiversity.

NATURE, SOUND & THE SENSES
Moving beyond what we see to consider birdsong, rustling leaves, wind through grasses, rain and other natural soundscapes as part of the designed environment.

BIOPHILIC CITIES
A deeper exploration of how landscape architecture can make nature part of the infrastructure of our cities — through soil, water, canopy, habitat, comfort and equitable access.

The issue also asks an important question: who looks after biophilic landscapes once they have been designed and built? Exploring maintenance, operations, stewardship, procurement and long-term funding, it argues that successful biophilic design must survive beyond the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

FROM GARDENS TO CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE

This issue challenges the idea that landscape is simply an aesthetic layer added to architecture.

Instead, it explores landscape as living infrastructure — providing shade, habitat, water management, sensory experience, social space, biodiversity and opportunities for people to reconnect with nature.

From riparian planting and ecological corridors to pedestrian routes, urban edges and agricultural landscapes, the issue shows how biophilic thinking can extend far beyond the garden.

WHY THIS ISSUE MATTERS

The future of biophilic design cannot be created by architects alone.

It requires landscape architects, interior designers, urban planners, ecologists, horticulturalists, acoustic specialists, engineers, researchers and communities to work together.

As our Editor Vanessa Champion writes in the Final Word:

“The future of biophilic design lies in collaboration.”

This Landscape Edition explores what becomes possible when we widen that circle — and begin designing sight, sound, air, temperature, biodiversity and human experience together.

WHAT YOU'LL FIND INSIDE

271 pages
Landscape architecture
Biophilic design
Biodiversity & ecology
Planting & horticulture
Public space
Biophilic cities
Workplace landscapes
Climate resilience
Sound & sensory design
Case studies & projects
Research & thought leadership
Nature-based solutions

FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, ARCHITECTS, URBAN DESIGNERS, PLANNERS, ECOLOGISTS, HORTICULTURALISTS, INTERIOR DESIGNERS, DEVELOPERS, SUSTAINABILITY PROFESSIONALS, RESEARCHERS, STUDENTS — AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN CREATING BETTER PLACES WITH NATURE.

Digital Edition — £4.99