Books By Jan (University of Sheffield, UK) Woudstra - Author

Jan Woudstra trained in landscape architecture and horticulture in the Netherlands and at Kew and completed an MA at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the University of York. His PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of London looked at modernism in twentieth-century landscape design. While working in private practice, he taught on the part-time landscape conservation course at the Architectural Association. He joined the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield in 1995, where he is Reader in Landscape History and Theory. He writes extensively and his publications include Jan Woudstra and Camilla Allen (eds.), The Politics of Street Trees (2022); Jonathan Finch and Jan Woudstra (eds.), Capability Brown, Royal Gardener: The Business of Place-Making in Northern Europe (2020); Jan Woudstra and Colin Roth (eds.), A History of Groves (2018). David Jacques is an historian and conservationist of parks and gardens, and has been a prominent advocate of cultural landscapes