In 2016, the Landscape Architecture Foundation honored its 50th anniversary by hosting The New Landscape Declaration: A Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future. More than 700 landscape architects from around the world gathered in Philadelphia for the event. Well beyond the public conception of the profession as "gardener" or "park designer," these landscape architects discussed their role in addressing weighty issues like climate change, urbanization, management of vital resources, and global inequities. Their ideas were used to craft the New Landscape Declaration, a manifesto for landscape architecture in the 21st century.

Now, LAF and Rare Bird Books have released The New Landscape Declaration: A Call to Action for the Twenty-First Century, a 240-page book that features the 32 "Declarations" written for the summit, along with excerpts from panel discussions and an opening essay by Richard Weller of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.