Landscape architecture is now a broad range of very different presentations of free space: sometimes strict, sometimes playful, powerful or reserved, provocative or almost unnoticeable. It comprises spacious natural and cultural landscapes, peaceful, almost intimate inner courtyards, outdoor installations of buildings where people can live and work, town squares and parks.

New Landscape Architecture) reflects the aesthetic and ecological effects of landscape architecture upon public spaces. The publication provides an overview of more than one hundred ways of structuring free spaces from the German speaking countries, such as the outdoor installations of the Allianz Arena in Munich, the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, the Landesgartenschau 2006 (2006 State Horticultural Show) in Wernige-rode and the redesigned lake basin in Zurich. These projects are made comprehensible by means of texts, photographs, plans and drawings.