Introduction / by Hiroshi Daifuku -- Amsterdam : green spaces for a city on land recovered from the sea / by F.G. Breman -- The urban landscape and the care of trees / by A. Hoekstra -- Utilitarian construction in the man-made landscape-- waterways / by Peter White -- Historic gardens / by René Pechère, M.F. Downing, Yoshinobu Yoshinaga -- Planning landscaping programmes ; A reclamation programme-- strip mining / by Gerhard Olschowy -- Regional planning-- an example / by Hubert B. Owens -- Landscape reclamation in the United States / by Chrisotpher Tunnard -- Trees and the man-made landscape / by G. Parlevliet -- Trees for urban areas in the tropics and sub-tropics / by H.R. Fuchs-Leeuwin