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Books

2008

On Landscapes. London: Routledge. [link]

2007

(with Chandra Lesmeister, Jamie Nicholls, and Kate Stefiuk) 7 Cs: An Informational Guide to Young Children’s Outdoor Play Spaces. Vancouver: Westcoast Chldcare Resource Centre. [link]

2002

Schoolyard Park: 13-Acres. Vancouver: Centre for Landscape Research.

Selected Journal Articles

2008

Meiji-mura, Japan: negotiating time, politics, and location. Landscape Research 33: 407-23. [link]

2007

Gardens Can Mean. Landscape Journal 26: 302-17. [link]

2007

(with Jamie Nicholls) Outdoor Play Spaces in Canada: The Safety Dance of Standards as Policy. Critical Social Policy 27: 128-38. [link]

2006

Kindergartens: Shaping Childhood from Bad Blankenburg to Boston. Die Gartenkunst 18: 81-95.

2006

Framed Again: The Picturesque Aesthetics of Contemporary Landscapes. Landscape Journal 25: 22-37. [link]

2006

(with Chandra Lesmeister) The Design of Landscapes at Child Care Centres: Seven Cs. Landscape Research 31: 63-82. [link]

2001

Garden Pedagogy: Romanticism to Reform. Landscape Journal 20: 30-47 and back cover.

2000

(with Lisa Gelfand) Getty Centered/Centerless. Critiques of Built Works in Landscape Architecture 5: 40-48.

1999

Playgrounds as Community Landscapes. Built Environment: Playgrounds in the Built Environment 25: 25-34.

1998

The Garden in Fröbel’s Kindergarten: Beyond the Metaphor. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes International Quarterly 18: 326-38.

1998

(with Kenneth Mark Studtmann) From Yard to Garden: New Directions in the Design of Children’s Outdoor Play Environments. Landscape and Urban Planning 42: 191-205.

1997

The Received View of Play and the Subculture of Infants. Landscape Journal 16: 149-60.

1994

Strange Scenes Within the Landscape. Critiques of Built Works of Landscape Architecture 1: 13-18.

Selected Book Chapters

2007

When Art Is a Garden: Benny Farm Gardens by Claude Cormier. Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations (Michel Conan, editor). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 17-32. [link]

2007

Myth Busters/ Déboulonner les Mythes. Hybrids: Reshaping the Contemporary Garden in Métis / Formes Hybrides: Redessiner le Jardin Contemporain à Métis (Lesley Johnstone, editor). Vancouver: Blueimprint, 126-30. [link]

2007

Outdoor Spaces Schools and Kindergartens (Mark Dudek, editor) Berlin: Bikhauser, 42-45. [link]

2007

People, Plants, and Parks: Competing Ideals. Naturschutz und Demokratie!? (Gert Groening and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, editors) Leibniz: Universitat Hannover, 175-82. [link]

2005

The Sustainable Schoolyard. Children’s Spaces (Mark Dudek, editor). London: Architectural Press, 215-44. [link]

2004

Taste Buds: Cultivating a Canadian Cuisine. Eating Architecture (Jamie Horwitz and Paulette Singley, editors). Cambridge: MIT Press: 33-50. [link]

2004

Muscle Memory: Reflections on the North American Schoolyard. Childhood Across Time and Space: Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images (Hillel Goelman, Sheila Marshall, and Sally Ross, editors). Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 91-108. [link]