Few other professions can match landscape architecture's requirement graphically to represent and communicate so much content and so many ideas. From large-scale master-plans and strategic visions, design concepts and outdoor experiences, to specific vegetation and precise construction details - at some point everything has to be explained on paper. This handbook focuses on two areas which, even in the age of digital media, are still staples of the profession: orthographic projections and blackline drawings

• Understanding landscape and visualisation
• Understanding linear perspective
• The perspective leap into landscape visualisation
• Perspective developments in the 17th and 18th centuries
• Visualising a social arcadia: 1850s to early 1900s
• The first decades of the 20th century
• The second half of the 20th century
• 21st century perspective visualisation: the return of arcadian themes
• Constructing perspectives
• Perspective visualisation: examples and inspiration