In an age when mankind's stewardship of the environment is under constant scrutiny, Urban Landscape Design tells the positive side of the story. These carefully researched projects demonstrate high quality solutions to man's urban spatial needs. We see how, for example, China's necessity to maintain food production, inspires hybrid landscape solutions implemented by students of architecture. Stunning images describe how in California a formerly forbidding dark alleyway can be transformed into an inviting, well-lit recreational space. Innovation and regeneration are the fundamental themes linking the public open spaces, waterfronts, boulevards and squares.