The book includes detailed discussions and illustrations of major projects such as:

The book discusses how Latz translates ecological and social concerns into a unique aesthetic language, creating "spaces in development" rather than static, finished parks.

in Germany (a famous example of transforming a former blast furnace plant). Parco Dora in Turin, Italy. Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg.

This method involves revealing the historical "layers" of a site and weaving them into a network of spatial and temporal relationships.

Weilacher contextualizes Latz's work by comparing it with other landscape architects like Bernard Lassus and Richard Haag , and theorists like Lucius Burckhardt . Publication Details Author: Udo Weilacher . Publisher: Birkhäuser (Berlin/Boston). Year: Originally published in 2007/2008.

The book was awarded the prestigious John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize in 2012 for its original research and intellectual vitality in landscape studies. Syntax of Landscape - Springer Nature

It focuses on the intelligent reuse of debris and alternative environmental technologies to reclaim large-scale industrial landscapes.