Summary: "We don't sell gardens--we sell images of gardens." This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate the designers' proposed ideas and solutions, but they also convey their attitude toward the use of nature and the environment. With myriad possibilities, including computer programs as well as hand drawings and models, which continue to be widely used, and strong competition in the field, there is now a huge variety of visual representations, with agreed-upon rules but also a great deal of freedom

• Preface
• Introduction
• Convaying ideas and planning aims in plans and images
• Presentation methods in the past
• Finding ideas and forms by drawing
• Finding ideas and forms by Modelmaking
• Part1 Function
• Plane - two-dimentional presentions: possibilities and limitations
• The ground plan as the basic for design
• Height as a sesond dimension: sections and elevations
• Plans and analyses of the existing fabric
• Preliminary design and design plans
• Sections and elevations
• Landscape planning
• Explanatory structural plans
• Presentation drawings
• Working Plans
• Space - Presentation of living spaces
• Three-dimensional projections
• Spatial representation by models
• Parallel projections and perspectives
• Perspective views
• Bird's-eye view perspectives
• Spatial representations for working planning
• Physicak and digital models
• Time - the forth dimention
• Change as a subject of design and presentation
• Survey
• Times of day
• Seasons
• The passage of time
• Example: transformation of and urban landscape: Bordeaux
• Films
• Part 2 Concepts
• Visual presentations over the course of the planning process
• Example 1: Beijing Yanshan Gas Implements Factory Park
• Example 2: Khalifa City C
• Visual presentions for competitions
• Example 1:International Garden Show 2013 at Hamdurg-Wilhelmsburg
• Example 2: Toronto Waterfront
• Example 3: The High Line, New York
• Part 3 Strategies
• Urbanization: a challenge for sustainable landscape planing
• Example: ecological infrastructure sa the basic for a "negative planning" for Taizhou, China
• Planning with climate change Example 1: retreat of the snow line
• Example 2: sprawl landscape
• Example 3: urban growth: delta and beach grove
• Example 4: developments in the cityscape
• Scenariors as a basic for guiding and design for the growth of major cities
• Example: scenarios of development for the city of Perth
• Appendix
• Illustration and film credits
• About the author
• Subject index
• Index of practices and projects
• Bibliography
• Colophone