Preliminary orientations
History as geology, topography and weather
Examples of history in earlier landscape architecture (Renaissance Rome, Désert de Retz, Les Buttes Chaumont)
Five Paris sites: a scale of contemporary interventions and inventions
History found and exploited in a specific place today
History "invented" for a site today
Land art, garden festivals & historical ground
Afterword/afterlife.
Historical ground : the role of history in contemporary landscape architecture by John Dixon Hunt. ISBN 9780415814133. Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.