Tom Turner is an English

landscape architect A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water manageme ...

garden design Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Garden design may be done by the garden owner themselves, or by professionals of varying levels of experience and expertise. ...

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garden historian The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture, with gardens that were mainly ornamental generally the preserve of the elite until quite recent times. Smaller gardens generally had being a kitchen garden as th ...

teaching at the

University of Greenwich The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom. Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic. The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along with it ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. He is the author of books and articles on landscape and gardens and is the editor of the ''Garden History Reference Encyclopedia''. Educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, he studied landscape architecture under Frank Clark.

Published works

*Suez Canal Regional Plan Volume 4 Environment (United Nations Development Programme, Cairo, 1977) *Landscape Design for the Middle East, Chapter on 'The design of open space' in book edited by Jane Brown and Timothy Cochrane (RIBA Publications, 1978) *Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, Preface to 1982 edition of Gertrude Jekyll's book (Antique Collectors Club, 1982) *Loudon's stylistic development Journal of Garden History 1982, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 175–188. *Landscape planning: a linguistic and historical analysis of the term's use, Landscape Planning 9, (1982/3) pp. 179–192. *London Landscape Guide (Landscape Institute, 1983) with Simon Rendel. *Landscape planning: the need to train specialists' Landscape Planning 11 (1984) pp. 33–36. *Comment on Philip Dearden "Factors influencing landscape preferences: an empirical investigation", Landscape Planning 12, (1985) pp. 93–94. *English Garden Design: history and styles since 1650 (Antique Collectors Club, 1986). *Landscape Planning (Hutchinson Education, 1987). *Urban Parks, The Landscape Institute, December 1992. *Open space planning in London: from standards per 1000 to green strategy, Town Planning Review October 64 (4) 1992 pp. 365–386. *GIS and the "Future of Planning"' Planning Practice and Research Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 347–351 December 1994 *Greenways, blueways, skyways and other ways to a better London Landscape and Urban Planning 33 (1995) pp. 269–282 *GIS and the rebirth of ‘planning’ Urban Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 Autumn 1995 *River reclamation, with GIS Built Environment, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1995 *Western Europe, current city expansion and the use of GIS Robert Holden and Tom Turner, Landscape and Urban Planning 36 (1997) pp. 315–326. *City as Landscape: a post-Postmodern view of design and planning (Spons, 1996) *Public Open Space: planning and management with GIS (Greenwich University Press, 1998) *Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design (UCL Press 1998) HB *Garden History Reference Encyclopedia CD (2002) *Garden Design: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC-2000 AD, Routledge (2005) *Asian Gardens: history, belief and design (2010) Routledge *European Gardens: History, Philosophy and Design (2011) Routledge *London Gardens Walk - Design & History Tour (2012) *British Gardens: History, philosophy and design (2013) Routledge

References

External links

The Garden and Landscape Guide
{{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Tom 1946 births Living people Architects from Surrey English landscape architects Alumni of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Greenwich People from Woking New Classical architecture