The latest volume documenting Germany's contribution to contemporary landscape architecture and environmental design. We expect today's landscape architecture to present projects for open spaces which respond to the challenges arising in modern society. Parks and squares should be contributing factors to an integrated urban and rural development. Sophisticated open spaces provide incentives for investors in the com petition for urban locations and European cooperation is paving the way for international projects. Issues such as sustainable park management and protection from vandalism, are becoming increasingly important in landscape architectural designs. Where does new space need to be created? What opportunities does the current political landscape present and how do landscape architects transform them into built and green spaces for the public? This attractive book shows the pioneering designs in today's landscape architecture, looking at contemporary gardens, parks, urban and rural projects.