The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (3rd edition)

As the niece of a lexicographer, I fully appreciate the amount of work and checking involved in updating this dictionary, which contains more than 900 new entries, of which over 600 are biographical ones with more than 50 percent relating to landscape. This substantially revised third edition of the 2006 second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture retains its original compiler, the architectural historian, James Steven Curl, now collaborating with Dr Susan Wilson, an expert on landscape architecture.

This results in a welcome greatly expanded coverage of garden history and landscape architecture, though there is less on green and/or...