ew Zealand’s Landscape Foundation has produced a deeply rigorous and challenging book with an overtly optimistic and generative tone, which deserves to be read widely by landscape architects. It provides a rich documentation of the landscape and culture of Aotearoa through an examination of place and placemaking policy. The interwoven structure of the book, with its seven chapters and 34 essays, stories, photo essays and polemical pieces, provides a template for the expression of place through publication. This approach foregrounds Māori
