To find books, you can search your local library catalogues by using keywords and Boolean logic. Remember to think of all the alternate words you can for your topic. Depending on the institutions policies you may be able to borrow books as a alumni or as a community borrower.

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A sample of some book titles from the University of Guelph catalogue is provided below . This is by no means an exhaustive list.

Urban forestry : planning and managing urban greenspaces /Robert W. Miller. Guelph McLaughlin Book Stacks SB 436.M55

Canadian gardening's Creating a garden : designs for every kind of garden from country settings to urban spaces /Liz Primeau. Kemptville College (UG) Book Stacks 712.60971 PRI 2005

Garden your city / Barbara Hobens Feldt ;UW Musagetes Architecture Book stacks ( Cambridge) SB453 .F394 2005

Urban sanctuaries : peaceful havens for the city gardener /Stephen Anderton. Guelph McLaughlin Book Stacks/ SB473 .A52 UW Musagetes Architecture Book stacks ( Cambridge) SB473 .A52 2001

Horace Walpole: Gardenist; An Edition of Walpole's the History of the Modern Taste in Gardening, With an Estimate of Walpole's Contribution to Landscape Architecture, by Isabel Wakelin Urban Chase.Annex(off-site) SB 470.W3 C45

The city gardener Containing the most experienced method of cultivating and ordering such ever-greens, fruit-trees, flowering shrubs, flowers, exotick plants, &c. as will be ornamental, and thrive best in the London gardens /by Thomas Fairchild, Electronic Resource Click here for access

Community greenspaces are worth money : an economic argument for parks, natural areas and greenways. /by Zegarac, M. Canada. Environment Canada. Ontario Region.Guelph McLaughlin Government Documents Book Stacks CA1 EP 2001C53

A patch of Eden : America's inner city gardeners / H.Patricia Hynes.UW Porter. Book Stacks. 6th-10th Floors. SB457.3 .H95 1996

Greenspace and the Cities / by J.M. Pullen Canberra City : Australian Institute of Urban Studies, 1977Guelph McLaughlin Book Stacks HT 169.A8 P8

The city in a garden : a photographic history of Chicago's parks / text by Julia Sniderman Bachrach ; foreword by Bill Kurtis ; contemporary photographs by Judith Bromley and James Iska ; and historic images from the Chicago Park District's Special CollectionsGuelph McLaughlin Book Stacks F548.65.A1 B34