Publications

For access to all of Alison’s publications, see her Academia page. Included here are her books and books in which she has published a chapter:

Alison B. Hirsch, City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America (University of Minnesota Press)

James Corner and Alison B. Hirsch, eds. The Landscape Imagination (Princeton Architectural Press)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Is Landscape Elitist?” Landscape Is...! Essays in the Meaning of Landscape (Routledge, 2025)

Alison B. Hirsch and Aroussiak Gabrielian, “Fieldwalking the City,” Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools (Routledge, 2024)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Design Activism: Landscape + Labor-Work-Care,” Transgressive Practices to Transformative Policies: landscape change, fast & slow (Center for American Architecture & Design, University of Texas at Austin, 2024)

Alison B. Hirsch, Urban Markets, Rural Slums: Segregation and Resistance in California’s “Unincorporated” Landscape,” Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas (Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University Press, 2023)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Reinstating Landscapes of Urban Resistance,” Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City (MIT Press, 2022)

Alison B. Hirsch, “The Drawings of Lawrence Halprin,” Representing Landscapes: 100 Years of Visual Communication (Routledge, 2022)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Densities of Difference: A Design Methodology for Global Cities,” Urban Landscapes in High-Density Cities (Birkhauser, 2019)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Ritual Practice and Place Conflict,” Routledge Companion on Global Heritage Conservation (Routledge 2019)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Expanded 'thick description': The landscape architect as critical ethnographer,” Innovations in Landscape Architecture,(Routledge, 2016)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Imaging Change,” Design in the Terrain of Water (Applied Research + Design, 2014)

FOR ALISON’S JOURNAL ARTICLES, SEE HER ACADEMIA PAGE.