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Books
Some early books on Playscapes:
Arvid Bengtsson, Adventure Playgrounds, Crosby Lockwoood, 1972
Jack Lambert, Adventure Playgrounds, Jonathan Cape, 1974
Lady Allen of Hurtwood, Planning for Play, The Mit Press, 1968
Arvid Bengtsson, Environmental Planning for Children’s Play, Crosby Lockwoood, 1970
Paul Hogan, Playgrounds for Free, The Mit Press, 1975
Some practical books on materials, knowledge and techniques.
Timothy Cochrane Asso, Children’s play in the countryside, Countryside Commission for Scotland, 1984
Alastair Fuad-Luke, The eco-design handbook, Thames & Hudson, 2006
Dave Potter, Risk and Safety in Play, E & FN SPON, 1997
Alan Pearce, Playing it Safe (lots of health and safety stories, good to quote), MPG Books Ltd, 2007
John Roulac, Backyard Composting, Green Earth Books, 2002
John H. Penton, The Disability Discrimination Act: Inclusion, RIBA, 1999
Barbara Jones, Building with Straw Bales, Green Books, 2003
David Pearson, Treehouses, Gaia Books Limited, 2001
Fraser Brown, The Venture, A case study of an Adventure Playground, Play Wales, 2007
Kiko Denzer, Build your own Earth Oven, Hand Print Press, 2004
Walter B.Gibson, Knots and how to tie them, Wings Books, 1989 Lots of other books like this, all good.
Books around design.
Daniel Miller, Material Cultures, Why some things matter, Routledge, 1998
Carsten Holler, Test Site, Tate Trustees, 2007 Essay two by Roy Kozlovsky
“Historical Study” of the slide is great.
Nils Norman, An architecture of play: a survey of London’s adventure playgrounds, Four Corners Books, 2003
Aldo van Eyck, The playground and the city, NAi Publishers Rotterdam, 2002
A book of interest, every architect knows him, but the result of this has been disastrous.
Vladimir Arkhipov, Home-Made, Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts, Fuel Publishing, 2006
Jonathan M. Woodham, Twentieth-Century Design, Oxford University Press, 1997
Adrian Forty, Objects of Desire, design and society since 1750, Thames and Hudson, 1986
Iain Borden, Skateboarding, space and the city, Berg, 2001
This covers everything in the history of the skateboard, great book.
Theory Books directly and indirectly relating to Play
Roger Caillois, Man, Play and Games, University of Illinois Press, 1961
Winnicott, Playing and Reality, Tavistock Publications Ltd, 1971
Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, The Beacon Press, 1950
Carl R Rogers, Client Centered Therapy, Constable and Company Limited, 1951
Paul Virilio, Open Sky, Verso, 1997
Looks at speed and it effects.
Paul Virilio, City of Panic, Berg, 2005
Philosophy, politics and urbanism.
Mike Davis, City of Quartz, Vintage Books,1992
A must read for cityscape development.
Jane Jacobs, The death and life of great American cities. Vintage Books, 1961
Another must for cityscape/ planning.
Carl Honore, In praise of SLOW, Orion, 2004
A little coffee table read but worth a look at.
George Monbiot, HEAT, Penguin Books, 2006
Bob Hughes, Play Types, Speculations and Possibilities. London Centre for Playwork, 2006
Tim Gill, No Fear, Growing up in a risk averse society, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007
Susan G.Solomon, American Playgrounds, Revitalizing Community Space, University Press of New England, 2005
The first chapters are full of information about how great play is, but then the rest of the book shows how most American Landscape Architects have not got a clue.
Alice LaPlante Rich Seidner, Playing for Profit, John Wiley & Sons, 1999
A little dated but a detailed look at digital entertainment and profit.
Rudi Lissau, Rudolf Steiner, Life, work, inner path and social initiatives, Hawthorn Press, 1987. Other books are available on the same subject.
Virginia Axline, Dibs: In Search of Self, Pelican Books, 1964
May be how play therapy starts, a very moving book.
Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, 1970
A poplar book on how speed is messing us up.
Harlan Lane, The Wild Boy of Aveyron, Granada Publishing, 1979