We have collected a reading list that reflects some of the main topics and research interests of the programme. This list can be used by prospective students, current students and/or for graduates as it contains readings that are part of the course and others that are linked to current developments that may influence the course in the near future. All books are available through the AA Library, essays are available online and some through the online AA library, otherwise click on the links to find out more about each :
- Book: Landscape as Territory by Clara Oloriz
- Book: The Architecture of Neoliberism by Douglas Spencer
- Book: Social Formations and Symbolic Landscape by Denise Crosgove
- Book: The Birth of Territory by Stuart Elden
- Book: Critical Territories by AA Landscape Urbanism
- Book: Forests: The shadow of Civilization by Robert P. Harrison
- Book: Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm
- Essay: Legal Terrain by Stuart Elden
- Book: Reciprocal Landscapes by Jane Hutton
- Book: Landscape and Agency by Ed Wall and Tim Waterman
- Book: The Dark Side of the Lanscape by John Barrel
- Landscape and Power by W.J. T. Mitchell
- Essay: Nature is the dummy by Douglas Spencer
- Essay: The Limits of Limits by Douglas Spencer
- Book: Liquid Power by Erik Swyngedouw
- Book: The Progress of This Storm by Andreas Malm
- Essay: The Emergence of “Landscape Urbanism by Graham Shane
- Book: Landscape as Urbanism by Charles Waldheim
- Book: Landscape as Infraestructure by Pierre Bélanger
- Book: The Alphabet and the Algorithm by Mario Carpo
- Book: Cartographies of the Absoluteby Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle
- Essay: Planetary Urbanization by Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid
- Book: Earth in Human Hands by David Grinspoon
- Book: The New Enclosure by Christopher Brett
- Essay: What Has happened to Territory by Antoine Picon.
- Essay: The Agency of Mapping by James Corner
- Recovering Landscape by James Corner
- Journal AD: The landscapists guest edited by Ed Wall
Readings for a Pandemic:
- Essay: Defetisishing Landscape(s) by Clara Oloriz (part of Landscape as Territory book)
- Essay: Notes on a Novel Coronavirus by Rob Wallace
- Essay: Mantainance and Care by Shannon Mattern
- Essay: Design and the Green New Deal by Billy Fleming
- Essay: Staying at Home by Andrea Bagnato
- Essay: Social Contagion: Microbiological Class War in China
- Essay: Becoming Planetary by Jennifer Grabys
- Essay: The “Decameron”; or, How to Laugh through a Pandemic by Chandra Mukerji
- Essay: Pandemics Leave Us Forever Altered by Charles C. Mann
- Essay: A Marxist Theory of Extinction by Troy Vettese
- Essay: The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese
- Essay: Revolution or Ruin by Kai Heron & Jodi Dean
- Essay: Abolish Oil: From Green New Deal to Green Reconstruction by Reinhold Martin